<p>dunno if your school has this but i had a quick question -- </p>
<p>when seniors graduate here, some students get a yellow ribbon that allow them to "graduate with honors", doesn't really have any real meaning other then you get a pretty ribbon, haha. apparently there's a minimum gpa though...</p>
<p>is it a school-set gpa? or is there an actual gpa set by your state/everywhere to graduate with honors?</p>
<p>Where I live, it's the NC Honor Scholars with stipulations decided by the state.</p>
<p>i had a yellow honors cord when i graduated...but it was for nhs</p>
<p>hmm, i graduated with honors, but i think the guidelines were set by the state, not just the school.</p>
<p>in my school honors is given to people in the 2nd and 3rd decile (since we don't rank) 1st decile is high-honors...basically all of the geniuses.</p>
<p>our school just does it based on who's in NHS.</p>
<p>We get a gold ribbon for being in NHS and completing the minimum number of service hours (10 haha).</p>
<p>at my school, you can be in NHS and not graduate with honors. I think it is because NHS is based merely on GPA (and community service here) but "honors diploma" is based on rigor of courses taken, diversity of courses taken, test scores, and GPA.</p>
<p>Haha we get tassles for NHS. And our NHS is based on....nothing. We have no honors or anything, and our school ranks kids, but refuses to honor a valedictorian or saluditorian. We do have an "honor roll" and such for GPAs, but the only graduation significant thing is an asterik next to your name for getting a 3.5 weighted GPA.</p>
<p>yeah, for CSF you get a tassel adornment and a golden stole. Pretty leet. I've seen some seniors wearing purpley-lavender stoles, are those for NHS?</p>
<p>We get different color tassels for honor societies (you get to choose which one to wear, some people may have 4 or 5) and for NHS we get yellow cords and a yellow tassel. In the graduation program it designates 4.0+, Cum Laude (4.5+) or Magna Cum Laude (5.0+).</p>
<p>Yeah, at my school, it's a yellow cord & tassel for NHS, a cord for CSF, and a silver cord for MHS.</p>
<p>Yeah, you get a gold tassel in addition to your red tassel if you were in honor society.</p>
<p>We have an honour society at my school, but it doesn't mean much other than a banquet at the end of the year. Still, its nice to be recognized.</p>
<p>At our school it's 3.501+ and for NHS you get an extra thing plastered on your ribbon.</p>
<p>I just graduated and my school has three tiers. A student can graduate with High Honors, Honors, or neither.</p>
<p>For High Honors you have to have a 3.5 or higher. Honors is 3.2 - 3.49. A lot of the students I graduted with had way above a 4.0, so we all think they should have some special level for having over a 4.0. </p>
<p>If you have high honors, we got a gold stole. Most of the high honors people were in NHS, so we had to put patches on our stole. Honors people had a gold cord.</p>
<p>In addition, you could also have a silver cord that represented 250+ hours of community service. And there was also a community service medal.</p>
<p>Honors people (High and regular) also got special tassels to wear designating honors.</p>
<p>My D's school graduates 20% of the class with Cum Laude Society gold corded and tassel around the gown and gold tassel on the cap. Cum Laude this year had a minimum GPA of 4.5.</p>
<p>ugh, at our school it's evil. you need to be in the top 10% to graduate with "honors" where you get this pretty gold sash... i kinda just want to get a pretty sash over my ugly blue robes, haha. (but i miss top 10% by like 5-10 people. grrrr.) </p>
<p>in our national honor society, you need at least a 3.75UW GPA/4.25W GPA, be in one leadership positition at school and be in at least 2 school-related EC activities, and also have 100+ honors of community service AND also have recs from every single one of your teachers... </p>
<p>yeah, that's why there are like 10-15?ish people in NHS out of a class of 450ish, haha...</p>
<p>at my school graduating with honors means you got an "advanced dipolma". all you need to graduate here is 4 years of english, and 3 of math, science, and social studies. getting an advanced diploma just means you took an extra year of math, science and social studies. but nobody here really cares what sort of diploma they leave with, as long as they go.</p>