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Cum laude means 'with honor', magna cum laude is 'with high honor', and summa cum laude means 'with the greatest honor'. These designations are granted to every graduate who meets a required grade-point average, so several students in a class, or even an entire class, could graduate cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude. The valedictorian is the student with the highest academic rank in the class, so you would expect he would at least be a cum laude graduate. But if you have a class where no one has over a B average, there will still be a valedictorian but he will not be graduated with honors.
3.65-3.79 cum laude 3.80-3.89 magnum cum laude 3.90+ summa cum laude
Use lower case and italicize cum laude, magna cum laude and summa cum.
I graduated from Harvard Summa Cum Laude.
Summa cum laude is the highest distinction
They rank them via summa cum laude, magna cum laude, and cum laude. Usually summa is reserved for students with exceptionally high GPAs, magna is the top 10% and cum laude is the next 30%. Many schools do not rank students beyond this point, so there are no individual rankings. Some law schools, such as Yale, Harvard, and Stanford. do not have grades.
The highest level of honors is Summa Cum Laude, then comes Magna Cum Laude, and then Cum Laude. Thus, a grade point average (GPA) of 4.0 is Summa Cum Laude. Acutally, Summa Cum Laude starts at a 3.85 GPA. Still, different institutions have different requirements.
Summa cum laude is the highest it means "With highest honor"Magna cum laude means "With great Honor"Cum Laude means "With honor"
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That is the correct spelling of the honor applied to a graduating student, summa cum laude (with highest honors).
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The honors, cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude, are awarded at the college level.