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I. High School Requirements

The following are the minimum high school requirements of the American
Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges and must
be satisfied for admission to all Class A medical schols. Students entering the
College of the University of Virginia for their premedical college work must also
satisfy the regular entrance requirements for admission to the college. (See General
Catalogue.) These differ from the requirements stated below only in that
2½ units of Mathematics (1½ in algebra and 1 in Plane Geometry) are required.

(a) For admission to the two-year premedical college course, students shall
have completed a four-year course of at least 15 units in a standard accredited
high school or other institution of standard secondary school grade, or have the
equivalent as demonstrated by examinations conducted by the College Entrance
Examination Board or by the authorized examiner of a standard college or
university which has been approved by the Council on Medical Education of
the American Medical Association.

(b) Credit for admission to the premedical college course may be granted
for the subjects shown in the following lit and for any other subject counted
by a standard accredited high school as part of the requirements for its diploma,
provided that at least 11 units must be offered in groups I-V:

• Group I. English. (3 units required)

  Literature and composition.

• Group II. Foreign Languages. (2 units required, both of which must be in
  the same language)

  Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, Italian, or other modern foreign
  language.

• Group III. Mathematics. (2 units required)

  Elementary Algebra, Advanced Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry,
  Trigonometry.

• Group IV. History. (1 unit required)

  Ancient History, Medieval and Modern History, English History, American
  History, Civil Government.

• Group V. Science.

  Botany, Zoölogy, Chemistry, Physics, Physiography, Physiology, Astronomy,
  Geology.

• Group VI. Miscellaneous.

  Agriculture, Bookkeeping, Business Law, Commercial Geography, Domestic
  Science, Drawing, Freehand and Mechanical, Economics and Economic
  History, Manual Training, Music—Appreciation or Harmony.

A unit is the credit value of at least thirty-six weeks work of four or five
recitation periods per week, each recitation period to be not less than forty
minutes.