Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor graduated with honors from Ivy League schools.

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He then went on to study neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside, where he received a bachelor's degree in science and graduated with honors in 2010.

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Kate graduated with honors and got into an Ivy.

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Such awareness and devotion were evident in college, said Kristen Kuehnle, who chairs the department of criminal justice at Salem State University, where Collier graduated with honors in 2009 as a criminal justice major.

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Last year you had all graduated with top honors from the most expensive schools in the country.

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She graduated with top honors.

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She graduated at 17 with honors in physics and computer science and went on to pursue a PhD in plasma physics at Princeton.

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He graduated from Harvard with honors with a degree in government and then went back to the Ivy League school for his law degree.

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The female panel members politely objected to her characterizations of how she overcame such obstacles, pointing out she graduated from law school with honors and was on the prestigious law review.

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Although Mr. Holmes graduated from the university with the highest honors, he didn't attend commencement ceremonies, school officials said.

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He graduated from Simpson College about a year and a half ago with honors.

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