<p>How hard is it to graduate with Latin honors? I know the GPA requirements, but do a lot of people graduate with honors?</p>
<p>Well, there is a difference between graduating with Honors and with Latin honors (like suma cum laude and stuff). I don’t really know what the requirements for the latter are, and they probably vary according to the college. Plenty of people graduate with honors though. You can graduate with honors course distinction, honors project distinction, or honors college distinction (or of some similar name, I forgot what). The first is if you complete six honors courses, one of which must be a seminar. That is mainly for students who get into the honors program as freshman or sophomores, because it’s pretty difficult to find honors courses to take once you are taking mainly major-specific classes. Some people leave the program because of the gpa requirement (3.4) or because its just too difficult for them to fit in the six classes. However both those people (even if they can’t finish the six classes) and juniors/seniors who are admitted into the program have the option of doing a junior/senior honors project. It’s much less common than just completing the six courses, but plenty of people do it. You get a professor to advise you and they have presentations at the end of the year. It’s pretty cool. You have to take two 4-credit courses as part of the project completion during your junior or senior years. As I said, even people who weren’t in the honors program can apply to do a project, and they’ll just graduate with that kind of honors. If you do both (courses and project), you get a spiffy kind of distinction, but I forgot the name of it.</p>
<p>If you are referring to the suma cum laude stuff, however, I have no idea. haha</p>
<p>Ooo looky what I just found.</p>
<p>[Commencement</a> > HISTORY OF ACADEMIC DRESS](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/commencement/dress.html]Commencement”>http://www.northeastern.edu/commencement/dress.html)</p>
<p>Honors at Northeastern are:
Summa Cum Laude 3.750 to 4.000
Magna Cum Laude 3.500 to 3.749
Cum Laude 3.250 to 3.499</p>
<p>So you don’t have to pass the honors college gpa requirement to get a latin honors. Cool.</p>
<p>Great, those GPA requirements for the Latin honors was exactly what I was looking for. I also wanted to know about what percent of the graduating class graduates with Latin honors (cum laude, etc.). Maybe not the exact percentage, but I was wondering if anybody knows people who graduated with Latin honors, and how difficult it is to do.</p>
<p>This may be a little off-topic, but I wanted to know, what is the grading at Northeastern like? Inflation, deflation? I am just curious to know, how hard would it be to graduate with a GPA of 3.25 or higher? Thanks a lot.</p>