<p>Aleph - this would make sense if you qualified at the end of 7 sems? Did you have all As through 7 (too personal a question perhaps.).</p>
<p>I actually only had 6 semesters at Brown, so my “7th” sem was actually my 5th sem. I didn’t have all A’s, but I did have 22 by that time.</p>
<p>^so you technically reached the required number ahead of time if you needed 21 out of 24.</p>
<p>As far as I know, last year was an anamoly in that these honors were on the diplomas that were handed out at commencement. A number of people I know had them on their initial diplomas, suggesting that it wasn’t just those who had satisfied the requirements far in advance (particularly with departmental honors, this would be exceedingly difficult).</p>
<p>And based on the knowledge that I have, yes, 30 A’s or S<em>'s should be above the cutoff regardless of the number of courses taken in each term (but taking 5 courses may detract from the time you have to spend on each course, which could hurt grades overall). One way to look at it is a ranking of A’s and S</em>'s per semester; getting at least 3.75 per semester should safely get one in. I had originally thought that many more people got straight A’s (or A’s and S*'s) every semester, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.</p>
<p>Thanks for explaining - this is something I am curious about as well - my daughter is a junior and her grades have been excellent so far, so I’ve started to wonder if graduating with honors is a possibility for her. I asked her about it and she had no idea!</p>
<p>My son took a S/NC class and got an S on his online report. Does this mean that he did not get an A in the class, or can this not be immediately determined? Essentially, are A’s automatically shown as S* in an S/NC situation or is that only recorded internally?</p>
<p>I have a 3.33 (1A, 2B, 1S w/Distinction) first semester at brown. Why do I feel like I’m the bottom 10% of the class?</p>
<p>I believe s with distinction is only an internal thing for PBK and magna cum laude so an external transcript sent to a grad/med/law school will only show S</p>