Cum Laude vs High GPA
Hello everyone,
I am studying computer science and engineering at TU Delft and I hope to get a career as a QT or SWE (in trading firms) (and perhaps do a masters). My uni last year introduced a rule that you can't resit a course you have passed at a later year, but this year reversed that a little and only made it so that if you resit it you will not have cum laude on your diploma. My GPA is 9.3. So my question is, would it be better to resit old courses to increase my GPA (probably to about 9.5, max 9.6) and not have cum laude, or would it be weird to have a good GPA without cum laude. Which of the two would look better to a trading firm and/or for a masters?
Posted Oct 2, 2025, 8:03 PM UTC
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