summa cum laude

Amanpour graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a B.A. in journalism.

Before meeting her husband, she reached an upper rung on Wall Street, after graduating summa cum laude from Georgetown.

But the compelling weight of her experience is revealed in her résumé: summa cum laude from Princeton, editor of Yale Law Review.

These are indicated as "plain," "cum laude," "magna cum laude" and "summa cum laude."

Eventually Austen went back and graduated—not summa cum laude, honesty compels me to add.