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[aevi82]

Hi, everybody!
Could you tell me if there is any expression to tell that you've got an excellence diploma?
I mean the diploma with the best results (rating)?

Thanks.

[CP]

In the U.S.A., college diplomas can include notation that the person graduated with honors, with high honors, or with highest honors. Sometimes these are put in Latin, as *beep* laude, magna *beep* laude, summa *beep* laude.

So an impressive diploma would be a Harvard B.A., summa *beep* laude.
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[CP]

I have no idea why an ordinary Latin word meaning "with" would be beeped, and I must say it is rather silly. I'll try again:

c u m laude, magna c u m laude, and summa c u m laude.

Good grief!
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[ClarissaMach]

May be it was censured because in Portuguesse it looks like the word a s s
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[aevi82]

Thanks, people! I'm just trying to do my resume in English!