Top 25%; Solid performing undergraduate; better than many psych/nsci majors
Top 15%; Has potential to produce a fine honors thesis
Top 5%; Superior undergraduate; could become a fine graduate student
Top 1%; Outstanding; skills already commensurate with those of a graduate student
Comfortable and knowledgeable with research literature
Generates sophisticated, novel research ideas
Able to articulate research hypotheses
Depth of knowledge in proposed area of research
Understanding of research methods
Understanding of statistics
Responsible, dependable, conscientious
Meticulous and attentive to detail
Motivation for independent research