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TOP OF the Class was more BSBS that top of the class was bsWouldn't that reflect on the grades they gave him, which put him at the top of his class?wouldn't they be the ones who knew him best?Is that supposed to be proof of the credibility of Yalies or not?and that included 8 from yale were the pos went to school![]()
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Not quite.
As NBC News has noted—Yale University and Yale Law School don’t grade students conventionally, with letters or numbers. And they don’t have a class rank. ”Our current grading system does not allow the computation of grade point averages. Individual class rank is not computed,” according to the Yale Law School website. Instead, students can complete a course with one of four designations—credit, low pass, pass, or honors (pdf).
Similarly, as an undergraduate student at Yale, Kavanaugh did not garner the highest honors possible and was not the top student. He graduated “cum laude.” The designation means simply that he graduated “with distinction,” below those who earned the honors of “magna cum laude” (“with great distinction”) and “summa cum laude” (“with the highest distinction”).
Now, with sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him, and after an emotional display before the Senate judiciary committee last week, what distinguishes Kavanaugh is starting to seem even less awesome.