[dllthomas]

"it can be an advantage to mention you passed summa cum laude whereas another barely made it by coasting and offloading his share of works on others students"

Coasting and offloading work don't necessarily negatively correlate with GPA. Some of the people I knew in school who cared most about GPA would 1) pick the easiest classes they could find and 2) push as much of the work as they could onto others, neither of which was particularly impressive.