Latin Honors Question

Momwaitingfornew
Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:09:55 +0000

I suppose that median may be about what it is on colleges across the country, although I don’t know. I do know that these days a B is considered “average” instead of a C, as it was when I went to college. I did not have a GPA above 3.7 in college and yet I still was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (which was based on the top X percent.)

Most schools use the cumulative GPA, from matriculation to graduation, when bestowing the various honors. Smith’s negating the first year when it comes to Latin Honors shows the institution’s sensitivity to its low-income students and to those who come from less than rigorous educational backgrounds. It gives them a year to catch up to their better prepared peers. Those who do well from the start are rewarded with better overall GPAs, of course.