<p>I currently have a 3.76 GPA and think I can raise it to a 3.8 by graduation by taking 5 classes (Economics & Communication Studies major). [I will be graduating a year early; I don't know if this matters at all.]
Any chance to graduate with Magna Cum Laude?
I know Northwestern doesn't have a GPA cut off for these.
They do percentages, but Weinberg (econ) and School of Communication have a very different distribution of grades..
meaning top 8% in Communication Studies > top 8 % in Economics in terms of grade.
So I don't know how this would work.</p>
<p>why are my sentences all of sudden in italics…</p>
<p>3.76 GPA is pretty good on its own at NU. Congrats.</p>
<p>Based on information from NU website (below), it does not appear that you can predict where you will fall. To be Magna cum laude, you would need to be top 13 percent. Cum Laude, top 25%. Sounds like you have a good shot but would be impossible to predict where you’ll fall. Good luck. Either way, you’ve done great. </p>
<p>Graduating with College Honors (Latin Honors)</p>
<p>Students with sufficiently high cumulative GPAs graduate with Latin Honors. Cut-offs are recalculated once each year based on GPAs of June graduates. These cut-offs then apply to students graduating through March of the subsequent year. Here are the three levels:
Summa cum laude: students whose cumulative GPAs are in the top five percent of their Weinberg College graduating class;
Magna cum laude: students in the next eight percent ;
Cum laude: students in the next twelve percent.</p>
<p>These percentages may be shifted slightly up or down at the discretion of the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs to take into account ties for a given rank. Due to FERPA policy, information about exact grade cut-offs is not released by the College. The list of students who earned Latin honors is included in the commencement program.</p>
<p>Does only Weinberg offer Latin Honors (that’s a new term for me) or do all the schools?</p>
<p>@AnonMom13 then… do I belong to School of Comm or Weinberg when estimating where I stand among my peers? </p>
<p>@EnoughAlready I believe all schools offer it.</p>
<p>I missed it with a 3.785 my year, but I know I was right on the cusp of it, so a 3.8 may do it.</p>
<p>I will contribute a couple more data points - I guess. I know a guy who was just at 3.9 and got Summa, and another kid who had 3.86 and had magna. I know that the Cum Laude cutoff is just over 3.7. So I would assume that the Magna cutoff would be around 3.80-3.82. I am also on the cusp of it (sadly), since I have a 3.81</p>