<p>I’d list both cum laude and PBK. Why sell herself short?</p>
<p>I’d also list it as cum laude, particularly since her university uses different criteria for cum laude and honors. Any employer familiar with her school will know what the difference is, and might consider that she earned the wrong one. It sounds like cum laude is more impressive than honors.</p>
<p>My DS and I have had fun with this.
I completed by undergrad (and only) degree summa cum laude.
DS completed his masters magna cum laude.</p>
<p>We like to debate who’s ‘smarter’.</p>
<p>Congrats to your daughter, whatever she decides!</p>
<p>Well, here’s how the slackers do it: My son was able to project the GPA needed to graduate with honors (it varied from year to year, calculated to apply to the top 15% of the graduating class IIRC), brought his average to.02 above that number in the winter quarter of his senior year, then took all of his remaining classes in the spring - a bunch of breadth requirements - pass/fail, guaranteeing a relaxed final 10 weeks of college and no sweating out making honors.</p>
<p>I love that kid.</p>
<p>S1 messed it up w/ pass/fail. He was at Magna (gpa level) entering his last semester.
Took a PE class (scuba diving) for fun as p/f. Did great in the class would have made an “A”.</p>
<p>Made a B in difficult class that dropped him .02 below magna level. He ended up “cum laude”. If he hadn’t taken the PE class as pass/fail, he would have gotten an “A” and graduated magna instead of cum. That was four years ago…hasn’t made an impact on his life/employment.</p>