<p>I took the National Latin Exam freshman, sophomore and junior years. </p>
<p>Freshman year I got the Summa Cum Laude award.
Sophomore year I got the Magna Cum Laude award.
Junior year I got the Cum Laude award. </p>
<p>The Summa Cum Laude award is impressive, but then I'm pretty sure the Cum Laude award only means I'm higher than the 50th percentile. I got worse every year.</p>
<p>Would including these actually make me look worse than if I omitted them?</p>
<p>No. I think it’s better to report all of them.</p>
<p>I hope you don’t mind if I ask a related question on your thread – can NLE awards from prior to 9th grade be reported? I got a perfect score in 8th grade (Latin II), but haven’t taken the test since then.</p>
<p>yeah … i got a perfect score 7th grade and summa cum laude 8th grade
i doubt colleges care though</p>
<p>and to answer your question, i think the tests get significantly harder year after year, so at least it kind of makes sense? colleges arent going to look into the exact percentile of your award either…</p>
<p>yeah i wonder about that too, but for national french contest, because i’ve placed nationally every year since 8th grade :P</p>
<p>As long as your Latin grades remain consistently high (and your Latin Subject Exam score is high), don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>lol verbosely i think ive been ranked nationally within the “top 5 places” since 7th grade for the national french contest. what a joke. 80% of my class places in the top 10
it sounds more prestigious than it is</p>