Students from Walnut recently made the Dean’s List at two Southern California colleges.

Daniel Lee and Jamie Slingluff were among the 180 students from Whittier College who made the fall 2011 dean’s list, according to a news release.  Whittier College, founded by Quakers in 1887, is an independent, four-year liberal arts college.  The campus is designated at Hispanic-Serving Institution.

Undergraduate students awarded dean’s list honors must earn a 3.7 grade point average while completing a full course load of 12 units in the fall and spring terms.

Loyola Marymount University recently named six students from Walnut to its fall semester dean’s list.  The honorees included Steven Burke, Erica Carrasco, Samantha Hernandez, Carissa Izquierdo, Michelle Liu, and Leila Grace Pandy, according to a news release.

At Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles, students must have completed 15 semester hours at the university and earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or better.  Also, students must have finished all of his or her courses and never received an F in any course.

The university was founded in 1911 and is ranked fourth in “Best Regional Universities West” by U.S. News and World Report.  LMU is the largest Catholic institution of higher learning on the West Coast, home to nearly 5,700 undergraduates and more than 3,000 graduate and law students.