<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>