Mountain Folk – January 23, 2014

Karina Li, the daughter of Anna-Karin Li of Idyllwild, has been named to the Dean’s List of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., for academic achievement during the fall semester of the 2013-14 school year.

A graduate of Idyllwild Arts Academy, Li is a senior at Macalester last fall.

To be eligible for the Dean’s List a student must have been registered as a full-time, degree-seeking student and may not have been on a study-away program. A student also must have achieved a semester GPA of at least 3.75, 12 or more credits on a regular grading option, no grades below C-, and no withdrawal or incomplete grades for the semester. Grades for activity, practicum and technique courses in dance, music and physical education are not factored into eligibility for the Dean’s List.

Macalester College, founded in 1874, is a national liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 2,011 students.

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