What in the world is the "Dean's List"?

Applying to College
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<p>I just had my transcripts mailed to UMich and NYU and on there said something like on Dean's List. </p>

<p>*** does that mean and is that even worth anything (guessing it's cause of grades) on applications?</p>

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<p>It's an academic honor (usually GPA based) much like an honor roll.</p>

3

<p>"If a student's semester GPA is 3.80 or above and does not include any withdrawals or incompletes, he or she will qualify for the Dean's List"</p>

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<p>An aside: more and more colleges are capping academic honors such as Dean's List and Latin Honors (cum laude, etc.) as a percentage of the student body rather than GPA. Because of grade inflation, some such "honors" had become nearly meaningless. </p>

<p><a href="http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/%7Eastudent/2006-2007/issue02/news/03.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~astudent/2006-2007/issue02/news/03.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>it's different for different schools.
at my school, dean's list is the top 10% students which is equivalent of 3.5 or higher</p>

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<p>is it given every semester ? or every school year ?</p>

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"If a student's semester GPA is 3.80 or above and does not include any withdrawals or incompletes, he or she will qualify for the Dean's List"

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<p>What school is this? Harvard?</p>

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<p>here at georgia tech it is 3.0 and above.</p>