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Old 01-04-2010, 11:36 AM   #9
CayugaRed2005
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Latin honors is simply a title given to people on the basis of their GPA.
Not true. In Arts, latin honors is only given upon completion of a thesis.

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And I was not trying to diss ILR. I highly respect students in ILR, but it is well known to have a large amount of grade inflation.
Sure. Relative to Engineering or biology majors. But relative to other social science majors I don't think that 20% of the class graduating with a 3.7 constitutes Harvard-esque levels of grade inflation.

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Your explanation that because Latin is a dead language and ILR is a modern subject is....suspect at best.
I was trying to convey the fact that it's arbitrary whether or not you say 'cum laude' or 'with honors'. They mean the same thing, only one is in a language that nobody has spoken for two millennium.
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