November

• Complete and return an undergraduate application for graduation to the Registrar’s Office by the November 30 deadline. The form requires a signature and cannot be returned electronically to the Registrar’s Office.

January

• Check WIN to verify progress toward graduation requirements. Contact the Registrar’s Office with questions about status.
• Check your mailbox for the 2012 Commencement brochure. Your family will also receive a brochure at your permanent address.

February

• Check the Commencement website for up-to-date information and direct your family to the website.

March

• Discuss Commencement Weekend ticket needs with your family members and determine the final number of tickets you will need for the Baccalaureate Ceremony, Baccalaureate Picnic, Commencement Breakfast and Commencement Ceremony. Click here for more details.
  
• Reserve tickets online. After an order has been placed, subsequent online orders or revisions will not be accepted by the registration system.  At no time will graduates be denied the maximum number of tickets.
• Students needing additional tickets are free to ask classmates who do not need all tickets to order the maximum and share the extras. Students need to make these arrangements themselves.
• Tickets are not mailed. Tickets will be distributed to parents and/or graduates outside the College Bookstore on Friday and Saturday, May 18-19, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Two parking passes are included with each graduate’s order. Parents and graduates should bring IDs.
• Attend the Grad Fair March 21-22 at the College Bookstore. At the Grad Fair, you can order your cap, gown &  tassel (available only as a package). Students can also order graduation announcements, class rings and diploma frames. Representatives from the Registrar’s Office, Student Financial Services and the Commencement Office will be available to check student account status and to answer questions.
• Be sure to review the information sheet you receive from the Commencement Office at the Grad Fair and keep it for reference. The handout contains detailed instructions for graduates regarding Baccalaureate and Graduation exercises.
• Check WIN to verify progress toward graduation requirements. Contact the Registrar’s Office with questions about your status.

April

• Attend the Senior Meeting in Wait Chapel. The date has not been determined. Faculty Marshals and representatives from the Registrar’s Office, Student Government and the Commencement Office will speak.
• All graduating seniors (College BA and BS candidates) are asked to fill out the name pronunciation form. This will ensure that graduates’ names are pronounced correctly during the commencement ceremony.
• Check the spelling of your name and graduation status on WIN.
• Read the Registrar’s Office online notes for seniors. Current distinction levels are: cum laude 3.4; magna cum laude 3.6; summa cum laude 3.8.
• Schedule your exit interview with Financial Aid, if applicable.
• Pay fines or other financial debts on your student account. You may not graduate with outstanding fines.

May

• Read ALL emails sent from the Registrar’s Office and the Office of University Events.
• Pay fines or other financial debts on your student account by Friday, May 18 at the latest, so that payment can be processed in time for graduation. You may not graduate with outstanding fines.
• Check out the upcoming Young Alumni Club events and apply for your alumni email address that will move with you wherever you go.
• Pick up your cap, gown & tassel at the College Bookstore beginning the first day of exams. Payment is due when the regalia is picked up.
• Pick up your tickets and parking passes in front of the College Bookstore on Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Be prepared to show ID. The Bookstore will be open both days for cap & gown pickup.