ARTICLES OF GOVERNMENT

ARTICLE IX. Academic Distinction

A. Academic Distinction shall be determined at the end of the senior year on the basis of units earned at Wellesley after the first year. Those students who have achieved a cumulative course average of 3.90 or better shall be designated as Durant Scholars and graduated summa cum laude. Those students who have achieved a cumulative course average of 3.75 shall be designated Durant Scholars and graduated magna cum laude; those who have achieved an average of 3.60 shall be designated Wellesley College Scholars and graduated cum laude. In determining academic distinction, first year grades shall not count, nor shall grades earned elsewhere with the exception of grades earned in cross registration with MIT.

The standards for Latin honors shall be reviewed no later than 2007-08.
To be eligible for these distinctions, a student may take no more than six units on a credit/noncredit basis within the last twenty four units or in the case of transfer students and Davis Scholars who enter Wellesley with sixteen units of transfer credit, four units on a credit/noncredit basis counted toward the degree.

B. In general, no student shall be eligible whose record contains four or more notations of "I"' who has received a grade lower than a D in the preceding semester, or has failed to remove any condition before the beginning of the junior year. This shall not be interpreted to mean that a student may not abandon a course in which she has a grade lower than a D.

C. One unit of a two unit course and course units in excess of the number required for the degree shall be included.

D. Exceptional cases shall be recommended to the Council without the names of the students. Exceptions shall be made only upon grounds stated in exact terms, and such exceptions shall be treated as precedents.