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According to Fox, most of the nominees who do not receive summa degrees do not have high enough grades overall...
Today, 115 of the 160 summa nominees will receive highest honors, according to Associate Registrar Thurston A. Smith. He would not disclose the names of this year's winners or the departmental breakdown...
Those nominees who are approved by the Faculty receive a summa degree; those who "cascade down," that is, receive lower honors than those which their department recommended, still receive recognition for the recommendation. For example, a student might receive magna with highest honors as opposed to magna with high honors, the standard wording...
...never happens," he says. "We are far tougher than the College with respect to summa...
...biology and anthropology concentrator who was recommended for highest honors by both departments for her Hoopes Prizewining thesis, says she is unlikely to receive a summa degree...