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...says she was surprised to receive a summa nomination for her thesis, titled "Alcohol Dependence and the Brain: Towards an Understanding of Gene-Environment Interactions...
Theses often prove to be the most volatile part of the summa award evaluation, because they rely less on cumulative performance than overall grade point average does, instead reflecting intense work invested in one particular project...
...matter what kind of formal structure you have in place," says summa nominee Bert I. Huang '96, "there's still a good deal of judgment on the part of the department.... Primarily [the thesis grade] depends on who your readers are and what your particular approach...
...Other summa theses are less time-intensive...
...difficult to quantify what makes a good thesis, according to professors. They describe a gut feeling that a particular thesis deserves the summa distinction...