Graduation Year Checklist

• Check your DARS for accuracy. As an undergraduate student, you must have a minimum of 124 total units to graduate, including 48 upper division units. Check that all of your grades and/or incomplete grades from previous semesters are posted accurately. Make sure that all transfer work that you’ve completed appears in DARS.
• Check in with your advisor and confirm that your major and/or minor requirements are complete or are being completed.
• Fill out your Graduation Petition. Take it to your department chair (Arts & Sciences) or the Director of Undergraduate Programs (Business) to be signed. Turn it in to the Registrar’s Office by November 1 for May or August graduation and May 1 for January graduation. The Registrar’s Office will review your Petition and notify you of your graduation status via a message sent to your USD e-mail account.
• Verify your address with the Registrar’s Office for the mailing of your diploma..
• Contact Career Services to explore career options, apply for jobs and internships, or discuss graduate programs.
• If you plan to participate in the Commencement Ceremonies, review the Commencement Web site.
• If you will be an August 2008 Graduate and wish to participate in Commencement Ceremonies, you must complete your summer classes at USD Summer Session.
• Attend GradFest February 26 or 27 at the USD Bookstore to order your cap and gown ($10 fee), announcements, class ring, diploma frame, and free sitting for your cap and gown portrait.
• Pick up cap and gown at USD Bookstore beginning Monday, May 5. Late orders may be picked up on May 12.
• Complete the Senior Exit Survey.
• Order your USD yearbook.
• Pick up Commencement tickets at the Jenny Craig Pavilion Ticket Office beginning Monday, May 5. Tickets must be picked up by Friday, May 23 by 4 p.m.
• Pay all balances on all of your accounts (including library and parking).
• Complete your Exit Loan Counseling if you received financial aid.
• Set a place to meet your family following your Commencement ceremony.
• Contact California Candids for purchase of Commencement photos and Graduation Nation for purchase of Commencement video.