Do most people not graduate college with honors?

[Anonymous]

When I was in school, you needed a 3.5 or above to graduate with honors. Plenty made the cut, for sure, but most did not. (I barely made it.) I've known plenty of people who didn't even achieve a 3.0 upon graduation. They're fine, but not everyone is a superstar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I graduated with student loans and crabs. Sigh.

You win the Internet today, that along with a script for the critters!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in school, you needed a 3.5 or above to graduate with honors. Plenty made the cut, for sure, but most did not. (I barely made it.) I've known plenty of people who didn't even achieve a 3.0 upon graduation. They're fine, but not everyone is a superstar.

yeah, we had 3 levels. One started at 3.0, the next at 3.5, the last was maybe 3.8? I was in the lower level somewhere. I don't remember what my GPA was in college anymore. I didn't work incredibly hard there, but still made Dean's List most semesters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I graduated with student loans and crabs. Sigh.

Ha!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation is so bad these days that you have to be a real fuckup not to receive some kind of "honors".

or, you know, have a full time job and/or family.

[Anonymous]

I didn't. Honestly, I'm lucky I graduated at all. I had to work full time while going just to put a roof over my head and food in my belly. I worked shift work with crazy hours and it was rough. If I could do it over again, I would have taken fewer classes (like one per semester) and just done really well in that one class. But then it probably would have taken me 10+ years to get a BA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was in school, you needed a 3.5 or above to graduate with honors. Plenty made the cut, for sure, but most did not. (I barely made it.) I've known plenty of people who didn't even achieve a 3.0 upon graduation. They're fine, but not everyone is a superstar.

yeah, we had 3 levels. One started at 3.0, the next at 3.5, the last was maybe 3.8? I was in the lower level somewhere. I don't remember what my GPA was in college anymore. I didn't work incredibly hard there, but still made Dean's List most semesters.

Where does 3.0 get you honors?! At my old school, cum laude is 3.5, summa cum laude is 3.75, and magna cum laude is 3.95. I can't tell you how excited I was to achieve a 3.52 on my final transcript. (I had to pull a 4.0 my last semester to pull it off.)

[Anonymous]

I didn't and still got into an Ivy League grad school. I think maybe 20% of the class were Cum Laude or above, although this was before the days of grade inflation.

At my DCs university you have to opt in to write an honors thesis in order to graduate with honors. Most don't do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was in school, you needed a 3.5 or above to graduate with honors. Plenty made the cut, for sure, but most did not. (I barely made it.) I've known plenty of people who didn't even achieve a 3.0 upon graduation. They're fine, but not everyone is a superstar.

yeah, we had 3 levels. One started at 3.0, the next at 3.5, the last was maybe 3.8? I was in the lower level somewhere. I don't remember what my GPA was in college anymore. I didn't work incredibly hard there, but still made Dean's List most semesters.

Where does 3.0 get you honors?! At my old school, cum laude is 3.5, summa cum laude is 3.75, and magna cum laude is 3.95. I can't tell you how excited I was to achieve a 3.52 on my final transcript. (I had to pull a 4.0 my last semester to pull it off.)

Wake - but this was close to 20 years ago. They've probably upped it by now.

[Anonymous]

People who graduated FROM college, let alone with honors, shouldn't say "graduated college."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If most people graduated with honors that would kinda defeat the purpose.

Yes, all the children are above average, dontcha know!

[Anonymous]

Honestly, they didn't previously. Now, I expect that most students do graduate with "honors."

Why my DH and I decided to get out of academe. Too much pressure to give only A and Bs, and no one fails. Eventually the students will catch on and not go.

[Anonymous]

Cs get degrees

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who graduated FROM college, let alone with honors, shouldn't say "graduated college."

That's totally acceptable, especially if one is Canadian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was in school, you needed a 3.5 or above to graduate with honors. Plenty made the cut, for sure, but most did not. (I barely made it.) I've known plenty of people who didn't even achieve a 3.0 upon graduation. They're fine, but not everyone is a superstar.

yeah, we had 3 levels. One started at 3.0, the next at 3.5, the last was maybe 3.8? I was in the lower level somewhere. I don't remember what my GPA was in college anymore. I didn't work incredibly hard there, but still made Dean's List most semesters.

Ah, a liberal arts major.