<p>How does one find out if he is in the top 30% each semester?</p>
<p>You get an email. Usually the cutoff is 3.8ish (which is funny because the average GPA each semester is something like 3.3…yeah, think about that distribution /engineer)</p>
<p>[Academic</a> Honors: Main | Office of the Registrar | Rice University](<a href=“http://registrar.rice.edu/students/aca_honors/]Academic”>Academic Honors | Office of the Registrar | Rice University)</p>
<p>In the Spring of 2011 the minimum GPA for President’s Honor Roll was 3.88. Grade inflation? I know Rice has A+'s in their academic policy, but still.</p>
<p>Always felt that the honor roll and honors itself (cum laude etc.) should be by major.</p>
<p>Can a student have ANY pass/fail grades and still make honors?</p>
<p>Yes. Pass/Fail means the grade is a N/A. It does not count to your GPA unless you fail.</p>
<p>As long as you have at least 12 credits that you haven’t pass/failed, you’re still eligible. If you took 12 credits and pass/failed a course, you’re not eligible regardless of your grades that semester.</p>
<p>Regarding pass/fail, I’ve actually had a question myself on the topic. If a college looks at your transcript when applying for grad school and see that you pass/failed a class, how will they view that? I heard that a lot of grad schools (especially med schools) view it as an automatic D and don’t even consider that you might have had a B or something.</p>
<p>I’m asking cause I got a B+ in my math class and if I keep it pass/failed I’ll have above a 4.0 first semester which would be an amazing start (I didn’t expect to do this well at all, got lucky), but if I take off pass/fail I’ll have less than a 4.0. I’m leaning towards taking it off but I’m not sure.</p>
<p>Sorry to hijack the thread 
But thanks for any help Antarius / others.</p>
<p>FA - I haven’t heard this. I also know that several of my friends pass/failed their classes and were admitted to the grad school of their choice (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, MIT among others). Others (me included) got jobs without any incident.</p>
<p>You cannot P/F a class in-major, so I am not sure why they would be concerned. I pass/failed psyc (as an engineer).</p>
<p>Mkay; so what if the grad school program I apply to requires math as a part of its psych program? Some schools do that, I’ve heard, although I don’t know which schools I’m looking at yet, or if I’m sure I want to go to grad school for psych. Thanks man!</p>
<p>You might need to talk to the grad school in that case. Personally, I wouldn’t pass fail a B+, unless you expect to get straight A’s from now on.</p>
<p>Yeah that’s another thing; maybe two years down the line I’ll wish I had the B+ as a GPA booster. Plus, if I manage to do well this semester I might even balance out the B+ and get back to a 4.0. Decisions, decisions. Thanks so much for the help!</p>
<p>Don’t pass/fail a B+. That’s absurd.</p>
<p>Haha I know it sounds that way, but it was honestly a decently difficult decision. Maybe I’m just overconfident. I ended up getting rid of the pass/fail anyway.</p>
<p>^^ That’s what I would have done. Save it when you need it. </p>
<p>I used one during the Ike semester where I worked for the university practically the whole semester post-ike trying to get campus back up and running. Used another senior year during interviews where I was gone for a day or two a week.</p>
<p>Should have used it my sophomore year when I took 23 credits (9 classes). Dumb move; do not try this. EVER</p>
<p>Toooootally second (third) both of these guys. I’ve switched the two P/Fs I used on “just in case” classes back to real grades. Used one to snag a D1 during my 22-hour semester; took the P/F as such and didn’t turn in two essays that coincided with huge projects/superhell weeks. That’s what they’re there for.</p>
<p>I pass/failed a B freshman year when I had forgotten what I terrible student I generally am, and definitely regretted it later.</p>