Summa cum laude is the highest it means "With highest honor"Magna cum laude means "With great Honor"Cum Laude means "With honor"
Cum laude means 'with honor', magna cum laude is 'with high honor', and summa cum laude means 'with the greatest honor'. These designations are granted to every graduate who meets a required grade-point average, so several students in a class, or even an entire class, could graduate cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude. The valedictorian is the student with the highest academic rank in the class, so you would expect he would at least be a cum laude graduate. But if you have a class where no one has over a B average, there will still be a valedictorian but he will not be graduated with honors.
For most colleges and universities it would be magna cum laude. Summa cum laude typically starts no lower than 3.85.
Summa cum laude is the highest distinction
Claro M. Recto
3.65-3.79 cum laude 3.80-3.89 magnum cum laude 3.90+ summa cum laude
It is an honor awarded to college and university students who display academic excellence. There are three levels of honors as follows from lowest to highest. * Cum Laude * Magna Cum Laude * Summa Cum Laude (highest level).
Typically, it is magna cum laude. Suma cum laude can start at 3.86 for some schools, some are higher. I received the Magna Cum Laude and had 3.90. Got all A's except in two classes got B's. So it must depend on the university.
To graduate with cum laude honors at Wheaton College in Illinois, you must have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher.
Depends on schools. Ussually it is... Summa Cum Laude is 3.9 and better. Magna Cum Laude is 3.7 - 3.9 Cum laude is 3.5 - 3.7 There is also Egregia Cum Laude which holds the same GPA requirement as summa but is only given to the selected elite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cum_laude
The honors, cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude, are awarded at the college level.
summa cum laude is top 5% of the class magna cum laude is next 10% cum laude is next 15%