Latin honors disqualified
I’m a graduating student who was supposedly qualified for summa cum laude based on my GPA. However, I was recently disqualified because I’m a transferee and I had failed subjects from my previous school.
What frustrates me is that when I transferred, I basically started from scratch. None of my previous subjects were credited, and 100% of the subjects counted toward my current GPA were taken at my current university. Since transferring, I’ve maintained excellent grades and worked extremely hard to earn them.
For context, I stopped schooling for a year due to medical reasons. During that time at my previous school, I wasn’t even able to formally drop my subjects because I was immediately diagnosed and had to focus on my health.
Now it feels like my past circumstances are permanently being held against me, even though I completely rebuilt my academic record at my current university. I understand universities have policies, but it honestly feels unfair that failures from a school that contributed nothing to my current academic standing can still disqualify me from honors.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? Were you able to appeal it?