To be eligible for active membership in Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, you must be a college student who has demonstrated high scholarship in general and excellence in the academic study of Spanish. To do so, you must meet the following specific requirements:

1. You must have completed three years of study of college-level Spanish (eighteen semester credit hours) or the equivalent thereof, including at least three semester hours of a course in Hispanic literature or Hispanic culture and civilization at the junior (third-year) level. You may be admitted to active membership while still enrolled in the second junior-level course if all other requirements have been met and if the instructor of the course certifies that your work is of B or A quality.
2. You must have a minimal grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0-point scale in all Spanish courses taken.
3. You must rank in the upper 35% of your class—sophomore, junior, or senior—and have completed at least three semesters or five quarters of college work. In cases where an institution does not record class rank, you must have a 3.20 cumulative GPA.

To be eligible for active membership in Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, you must have demonstrated high scholarship in general and excellence in the academic study of Spanish.

Graduate students who have been unconditionally admitted to a degree-granting program may be elected to membership upon completion of two graduate courses in Spanish with an average which, if continued, will make them eligible for a graduate degree.