graduate with honors

My GPA after freshman year is 3.6. I transferred to another university, and I’m not sure how I’ll do here.

To graduate with honors from my school:

summa cum laude = 3.90-4.00
magna cum laude = 3.80-3.89
cum laude = 3.67-3.79

I think it’s very possible to raise my 3.6 to something else.

Plus, if I get into the civil engineering honors program, I “graduate with honors” as well. I’m not sure what the difference is, if there is one.

I can get into the CEE honors program with a 3.5 minimum GPA, and some other requirements, sometime in junior or senior year. This sounds very possible.

But because I transferred, I can’t get into the “University Honors” program because I have too many credits. I don’t think this gives much, if any, recognition at graduation anyway, that wouldn’t really be fair to transfer kids.

University is a time to challenge yourself and seek deeper inner guidance, not to follow the crowd, that’s for sports. Seek out opportunities to practise your skills in a real context, enter competitions, ask a professional in this field to be your mentor – they will most likely be pleased to share knowledge that can take you years ahead in awareness, go for professional development programmes – i.e. Shell STEP in UK, ask friends and relatives to help! Do it like you give a damn, and usually it shows.

If I graduate with honors and in 4 years, I will be ecstatic. I want my parents to be proud of me.

By the time my first semester in college came to a close, I had a 2.7 GPA and was short 4 credits I needed to graduate. Having made the transition from a mediocre school system to a good college, with no AP credits and no study skills to speak of, I’d just set myself a long way back. I was embarrassed and discouraged, but I was also ready for a clean start to a new semester. I’d screwed myself over; it was time to dig in and figure out what I did wrong.

What I eventually accepted was that college was a completely different animal than high school.

• Instead of waiting until 10 PM to start my required reading, I started wading through it during the free time I had during the daylight hours, when I was significantly more alert.

• I took a break from my choir group, which required a lot of rehearsal time, and freed up more time for academics.

• I chose no more than two back-to-back courses per day, because I knew my previous arrangement of FOUR back-to-back courses would lead only to skipping class and napping.

• Instead of pulling all-nighters, I separated my study material into “blocks,” usually chunks of material covered over the span of a week, and started looking over one block per day before an exam.

• I wrote my papers in two to three days and took the drafts to professors to look over a couple of days before the assignment was due. Some questions I asked were, “Does this paragraph seem to answer the question you asked?” or, “I wasn’t really sure how to arrange my argument here.” I did this with all professors until I got a good sense of what they were looking for. By fifth semester, I “knew” when I’d written a good-quality paper and was able to work completely independently.

• I was more honest with myself about my limits; I stopped signing up for courses I felt I’d fall behind in because they were too challenging (for example, after one disappointing experience, I knew I wasn’t adequately prepared to read whole books in upper-level French.)

In my seventh semester, I was accepted into my major’s department honors program to research a subject I’d always wondered about, but never found much information on. My school didn’t offer Latin honors, and I felt, as someone who wanted to go into my major field, doing an honors project would be beneficial. Months of research and balancing my other coursework flew by at an alarming rate, and there were moments when I wondered if I’d ever finish. Completing my thesis was the most difficult obstacle I’d ever encountered in college, but after years of making up for my 2.7, I wanted the icing on the cake. I took the project a page at a time, benefited from the warm support of my adviser and committee members, and handed in the finished product an hour before the deadline.

I graduated my eighth semester with a cumulative GPA of 3.57, a major GPA of 3.76, a prize, and high honors. To do it, I had to grow up and learn to appreciate what I was doing. The study skills and self-discipline came easily after that. My problems may not be yours, but I hope this entry has inspired at least someone. A discouraging start doesn’t have to mean a discouraging ending; never, ever think success is out of your reach.

But I’m tired of scraping by in school, and college is my new leaf. I’m really very smart, but people don’t know that because i tend to not do my homework if I feel it’s beneath me. So I’m gonna suck it up and do as well as I possibly can next year, and then hopefully I can be like everyone on The West Wing with their fancy resumes and run someone’s campaign for President.

Reading other peoples entries made me so discouraged. I feel like I can’t do it. I have 6 more semesters to go, which is a lot but I only
have a 3.0 which is the lowest gpa I’ve ever had—in my entire life. I had a really easy first year class wise and I really hard one life wise.

I know that I can do this but I feel like just because I didn’t really start strong my first year I’ve already failed.

I’m not giving up yet, because the 3rd semester hasn’t even started but I’m right at that door. I feel like its too late. :(

After completing four semesters of undergraduate work, I think I am well on my way to graduating with honors… Four more semesters, one of which will likely be abroad in Sweden! :-)

YES! I got 3.66 GPA! 3.5 GPA and higher is honors and higher than 3.8 is high honors. I’m so happy :)

My program cumulative is 3.68 right now :)
I’m graduating in April so I just have to do my best in the next assignments and get really good marks and hopefully I can graduate with honors which is a 3.5 GPA.
steps:
-study for A. test a little each day. & buy addictions book!
-do the best I can on each assignment, work on them each day
-do a little each day for assignments.

I haven’t made it into the honors college yet but I am really hoping I can do this by the end of the semester. I want to prove it to myself mostly. Plus during your senior year you get to write a thesis and I would love to be able to direct some type of show for my thesis.