Latin Honors

There are typically three types of Latin honors. In order of increasing level of honor, they are:

* cum laude, "with honor"; direct translation: "with praise"
* magna cum laude, "with great honor"; direct translation: "with great praise"
* summa cum laude, "with highest honor"; direct translation: "with highest praise"

It is difficult to generalize what percentage of top marks correspond to each of the degrees of honors, given that the percentages or grade point averages required for each rank can differ from university to university. Degrees summa cum laude used to be quite rare -- often reserved for the top one percent of students at the most -- and degrees magna cum laude only slightly less so. This situation has changed somewhat and there has been a trend towards less selectivity in assigning honors degrees. Still, a rough measure of the selectivity of the different honors is the common assumption in the graduate admission policies of British universities that the two higher categories (summa and magna cum laude) are the equivalent of first class honors, while a simple cum laude degree translates into an upper range second class degree (a so-called 2:1).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_honors

Hmm.. Yimei got cum laude equivalent to good 2nd upper.. (NOT LATTE!!)... Stressed.. At least a good 2nd upper class for me..