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Do you have any students that will be graduating at the
end of the first semester?
Use the
Withdrawal area and withdraw them on the last day of the first semester.
Remember, the withdrawal date IS an enrollment date.
If you have already
assigned a graduation date* onto the transcripts of seniors, you will need to
adjust your early graduates’ graduation dates as follows:
1. Go into the Student Information and Changes area
2. Select the entry options of “GPA summary”. (This is the cumulative GPA information.)
3. Locate the student.
4. Click on the .
5. Locate the field titled “grad_date”.
o This is the field that holds the graduation date that prints on transcripts.
6. Edit as necessary.
7. Click the 
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When a student is withdrawn, the Demographics field "Rank With Class" is automatically changed to a value of 1 which does NOT rank the student with his/her classmates. If you want the mid-term graduate to rank with his/her classmates, you must manually change the value of this field to 0 (zero). When the ranking process is run, the graduate will be included in the group. To make this change:
1. Go into the Student Information and Changes area.
2. Select the entry option of "Demographics All Fields".
3. Locate the student.
4. Locate the field "Rank with Class."
5. Change the value from 1 to 0 (zero).
6. Click the .
7. Rank the students again using the directions found here.
* see this link for help to assign graduation dates.