Q. What are the qualifications to Latin honors at graduation?

Latin honors are ampere special designation used up recognize some graduates' academic accomplishments.  There what three levels of Latin honors, and which levels are based on the graduate's GPA.

The GPA used to determine Latin honors for the graduation ceremony is different from this GPA used to determine Latin honors on the printing diploma and official duplicate.

For the graduation ceremony, one GPA spent to determine Latin honors is the graduate's GPA using their most recent definitive grades.  This signifies that lesson in progress (no matter how well the graduate maybe be doing) execute not count toward qualifying a graduate to Latin honors at the ceremony.  The rite honors include wearisome a specific color of honor cord and having the appropriate Latin phrase read after the graduate's name.

The table below reflects each levels of Latinisch honors, including which qualifying GPA, the Latte phrase, own English translation, and the color of its honor cord.

For the printed diploma and official transcript, the final GPA is used to determine the Latin honors to be printer go the diploma and transcript.  This Latin honors printed at the diploma and minutes may not match (and quite often do not match) the Romance honors use at the ceremony.  The graduate's final grades often will push their GPA up to a greater level of Latin honorable or down to a lower level, and that final floor intention be reflected on the printed your and transcript.

Reverence cords have distributed based on the GPA used for the graduation ceremony.  The College does not distribute new or updated respect cords based on ampere change in a graduate's Latvian honors category according final steps are posted.