Did you graduate summa cum laude or magna cum laude?

[Oeditpus Rex]

Let's see what kinds of minds we have here.

[RetroLounge]

1. magna cum laude

both undergrad and grad...

(not going to go where you want to go with this...)

RL

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. That's okay

You're helping to make my point anyway. :toast:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Magna cum laude--I missed summa by 0.25 points

:-(

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Magna cum laude, law school.

Fat lot of good it did me... :eyes:

[InvisibleTouch]

5. Summa, undergrad. n/t

[Pushed To The Left]

6. My Bachelor's Degree from UOP was "with honors"

My ceritficate from the belly-up CLC was "Cum Laude"

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. I'm a college dropout. 760 on SAT verbal though.

[Maddy McCall]

8. Summa Cum Laude

with honors on my BA.

[ulysses]

9. neither.

Double major in math & philosophy, though.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. Summa this, summa that.

Ah, I got nothing. :D

[SeattleGirl]

11. Magna cum laude

Just missed being summa! I think working full time and going to school full time mighta had something to do with it. :crazy:

[KitchenWitch]

12. Barely cum laude

:rofl:

[bridgit]

13. magna cum laude...

it was that damn drunk broad that crashed into my triumph, rolled it, busted me up & the year in re-hab :cry: now where's yours :P

[trackfan]

14. Sine laude. Straight B average,

which consisted almost entirely of A's and C's. I either had rapport with the professor, or I didn't.
Professors put off by epigrammatic style did not like me.

[Reverend_Smitty]

15. Magna cum laude

Chemistry cost me Summa, I needed a 3.85 and ended up with a 3.82...but I did walk Summa

[Writer]

16. I was a nothing cum laude as an undergrad, although I graduated with Honors.

I earned a 3.9 as a grad, but wasn't awarded anything with Latin in it. I feel cheated! :cry:

[Hissyspit]

17. I think summa cum laude or I just missed it by a point. I can't really remember.

It was quite a while ago.

[Evoman]

18. Actually...I think I'm whats called egregria cum laude..

That means that I graduated Summa cum laude, but I did honours on top of the regular coursework.

At my school its called High Honors...i.e. the best you can get.

But I'm still not one of those high IQ mensa people...I'm just interested in intellectual stuff. Heh.

[last_texas_dem]

19. Summa cum laude

For whatever that amounts to, which doesn't seem to be much so far!

[Lady Freedom]

20. I still have a year to go before I can answer!!

:cry:

[LaurenG]

21. Graduate?, Mind?

heh well I almost graduated and I lost my mind years ago so put me in whatever category that goes into.:silly:




edited for spelling

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

22. Magna Cum Laude

:hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

23. My second bachelor's degree was summa cum laude.

I have two bachelor's degrees and a master's degree. :)

[AllegroRondo]

24. I thought I was a cum laude

but all I got was a "go quietly"





actually, I managed to keep a 4.0 GPA through 2 degrees.

[miss_american_pie]

25. Magna

But school was never difficult for me. :shrug:

[Richardo]

26. "Persona non grata"

:D

[bigwillq]

27. None of the above.

:cry: :(

I guess I am just not smart enough for all those big words. :(

[Ariana Celeste]

46. You have company

I'm a drop out. :) :hug:

[CTyankee]

28. Magna. Missed Summa b/c of that damned Econ class

in grad school. The prof had it in for me, but that was because I didn't believe half of it and the other half I couldn't understand. Econ makes no sense to me.

[itsmesgd]

29. you-gotta-be-kiddin

is what some friends and family said when they heard that I was graduating at all and with a criminal justice degree of all things.

[Blue_Tires]

30. i graduated "thank you, Lordy!"

lol

[nini]

63. LOL

:-)

[Binka]

31. Summa

U C Berkeley or CAL as the locals call it. Good times I wish I was a full time student again.

[MorningGlow]

32. Summa for undergrad

Woulda been magna, if not for my stupid liberal arts requirements, making me suffer through math and science courses. Dammit, Jim, I'm a writer, not some left-brained logic freak!

[Binka]

35. Summa Is The Highest Honor

Perhaps you have Summa & Magna confused.

1. Summa Cum Laude

2. Magna Cum Laude

3. Cum Laude

[MorningGlow]

42. D'OH!!!!!!!!

:banghead:

Yeah, I meant magna. I shoulda stayed in bed today, is what I shoulda done...

[crim son]

33. I'm thankful I graduated at all.

My focus was not my studies and while I'm perfectly capable of getting a 4.0, I didn't. Psych major: 3.6, Sociaology major: 3.8. Cum laude of some sort, surely, for the amt of alcohol and various mind-altering substances consumed.

[Montauk6]

34. I graduated gpa cum lousy

[ChickMagic]

36. Magna cum lucky

I had a hard time in college with emotional issues
and working 3 jobs to pay for school. I'm better now. :)

[Gormy Cuss]

37. My college didn't award distinction honors but

I'm fairly certain that only one other person among my fellow grads could read our sheepskins -- our degrees were conferred in Latin.

Don't ask me to read it now, however.

[Name removed]

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[miss_american_pie]

39. ...

:spray:

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

40. *giggle*

:hi:

[WolverineDG]

41. Magna in high school

plain ol' "cum laude" for law school.

Just glad I got a BA somehow for undergrad. ;)

dg

[skygazer]

43. High school dropout

Am I supposed to be ashamed of that? I'm not. And I'm not stupid.

Just thought I'd inject a little leveling here.

[Perky]

44. Summa and then Magna for grad

[Burma Jones]

45. I graduated the "Rite" way for undergrad

Still, top half of my class, but sub 3.0. The top GPA for my Graduating Class was 3.5.....No grade inflation at Knox, if I recall, 3.0 got you cum laude, 3.2 got you Magna and 3.4 got you Summa.....

[grizmaster]

47. magna cum laude and the top GPA in my accountancy major

[Left Is Write]

48. Neither.

[undeterred]

49. Laude dah in the summa of 1980

:hi:

[hunter]

50. Mine was more like "GET THE HELL OUT!"

The dean was tired of me, shoved a BA into my hands, and kicked my ass out of there.

[ProfessorGAC]

51. My Wife And I Both Magna

I had a B in a psych class. She got a C in (get this) Creative Storytelling. The teacher said she wasn't "creative enough". 33 A's and a C, she got. I got the B in pysch mostly because i didn't care enough. Kind of went through the motions.

ON Edit: I forgot about grad school! Duh! I got nothing but A's for all three graduate degrees. That comes from taking only one or two classes at a time, i would guess.
The Professor

[montanto]

52. Missed Summa by a hair . . .

got Magna. At UCLA they go by the top 2.5% (I think) so Summa varies year to year. I had a 3.9 GPA and missed by .02% because I decided to stay an extra year and write an honors thesis. Previous year I could have had Summa for 3.8! Oh well, got top honors in English though. B.F.D. That'n $30,000 wortha debt'll getcha a job teachin' inglish!

[leftofthedial]

53. summa cumma magna

[jilln]

54. magna then summa (undergrad and grad) nt

[KamaAina]

55. No, just plain old, garden-variety cum laude.

And by one half of one A grade, at that.

Guess I'm just a big ol' Yale '85 :dunce: , cum laude!

[Jamastiene]

56. summa cum laude

for the electrical technology.

May be just magna cum laude for the Computer Engineering though.

[SOteric]

57. First, - you should be spanked. & Second, - summa cum laude.

Third, of course, -you should be spanked again. :spank:

[Oeditpus Rex]

58. For making a point about language?

:shrug:

[BarenakedLady]

59. Ok how many time can one get deleted in one day

before I get sent to to detention?

[The Anti-Neo Con]

60. Just cum laude

Barely.

[Little Wing]

61. I had to look these up. So, no.

And it doesn't bother me for a second.

[rug]

62. Summum cum opprobrium

[wain]

64. Two-time flunk out in undergrad

Summa on my second grad degree
(took me a while, but I finally got it - how to study)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

65. uhhh,....

Fabulous grades in one degree, A.A.S. in Court Reporting, (that's the person that sits in front of the witness stand and bangs on a stenograph machine taking shorthand) made straught A's, graduated with 3.96 on a 4.0 scale(i think that's magna) and was the VERY FIRST graduate of my community college's court reporting degree program, ever.

I think they left my name out of the graduation program.

Facts that I heard while in school: 3 out of every 200 people who start court reporting school finish. One of those will actually have a career as a court reporter. I did. It's why I'm dingy now from dealing with lawyers.

Degree No. 2: B.A. fairly average, not what I should have majored in but had a C in my major (biology) and A's in liberal and fine arts. Came out with a 2.62 which was OK.


Degree No. 3: This one should get awards for underachievement in overachievement.

In law school if you make 3 F's you are automatically thrown out. This causes a lot of pressure because it's 90 semester hours, just like undergrad. Only about five times harder. I thought I was a damn genius till I got to law school -- and this was after I had been a legal secretary and court reporter for years, literally I grew up in a law office reading new cases!!!

Also if your average falls below 70 you flunk out. Well, I slid thru on a 70.4.
This made me Number 101 out of a class of 102 in GPA rankings. I wish I could have found #102 and shaken his/her hand.

However, there was the extenuating circumstance that I was working full time at the courthouse, as a reporter and cranking out transcripts and going to night school for five years. I've seen more trials than a lot of judges have from my reporting job that I ran off screaming from, some years ago.

But, hey, I do have that Juris Doctor. This must be an amazing combination of something or other. It is large and would make a very impressive placemat. Also with a Paper Doctor (Ph.D. or similar) and a dollar you can get a cup of coffee, but you can't necessarily get a job or get respect.