Summa cum Laude (ScL): Its Etymological Meaning
How ScL is earned?
How to become an ScL?
Being a summa cum laude means having the right mix of nature and nurture.
1. Genetics is a contributory factor. A few individuals from the total population end up being born into this world with exceptional gifts, talents, and ingenuity. They easily take in information, as if "effortlessly." They are born geniuses in general standards. With their superb brain absorbing (such as, eidetic, synesthesiac, or highly photographic) and super-processing powers, they can critically and creatively utilize information at its utmost immediacy. No wonder, many people may attribute an individual landing as topnotch as the product of a person's predecessors (such as, ancestry, parents, and sometimes even to aliens).
2. Nature is also seen as another factor that contributes to a person becoming the cream-of-the-crop of the graduating batches. At the start, a baby may have been reared by a family predisposed in excelling in various fields of expertise. As such, such an individual studies in a well-reputed educational institution that cater to the gifted and highly talented individuals. Being surrounded by like-minded individuals like him/her, he/she also would later excel in his/her learning. Some of these future summa cum laude graduates receive the best training, companionship, education, and networks/linkages with the best government, private and non-profit organizations. Just think of those basic and higher education institutions whose endowments came from well-off and highly acclaimed alumni? Moreover, just to think of specialized schools and universities, such as science schools, schools for the gifted, inter alia, whose primary vision is to produce the "best and the brightest minds."
Is it too late to become an ScL?
Nothing seems to be too late in life, except when it ended. To become a summa cum laude, the first two above are non-negotiable ingredients. Nonetheless, there are things sandwiched between nature and nurture - that is, the specifics to them.
An award of summa cum laude may mean a person, who may or may not be an approximate jack-of-all trade, finishing the right course. For instance, a music prodigy may as well take up a course in college major in Music. An algorithmic brain person, on the other hand, may end up earning triple degrees in BS Bio-Informatics, Computer Science, and Philosophy --all at a young age of 12. Before turning 18 years of age, he/she may already completed his/her MD and PhD.
To sum things up a bit, earning that most sought after recognition is coupled with all the proper condiments, such as being well-organized, doing all course requirements on or before due dates, turning in extra credits, and a lot more. So, the next time you ask yourself: "Is it too late to become a summa cum laude?" The answer may as well be a realistic: yes, maybe, or no.
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