ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
Admission from Secondary Schools.—The general requirements for admission
to the University may be found on page 131. For admission to the
College of Arts and Sciences, the candidate should possess an amount of preparation
which is at least the equivalent of that represented by four years of
successful work in an accredited school. He must offer, either by certificate or
by examination (see page 133), fifteen units, of which three must be in English,
two and one-half in Mathematics (one and one-half in algebra, one in
plane geometry), and one in History. The remaining eight and one-half units
may be selected at will from the list on page 132, but no credit will be given
for less than two units in any foreign language.
Candidates who expect to apply for the degree of B.S. in Architecture
should offer Solid Geometry and Physics if possible.
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Chemistry should offer
Inorganic Chemistry and Solid Geometry if possible.
Admission from Other Colleges.—An applicant for admission to the College
of this University from an institution of collegiate rank may be admitted
upon presentation of a satisfactory transcript of his record at his former college
(see page 133).
No student suspended from another college for scholastic deficiency or on
probation in another college for scholastic deficiency will be admitted to the
College of this University in the immediately succeeding session, unless he passes
on at least three session-hours of work in one term of the Summer Quarter of
this University.
No student from another college will be admitted to the College of this
University if he has ever been suspended or on probation more than once, or
if he has ever been both on probation and suspended.
Advanced Standing is given to any candidate who, in addition to meeting
the minimum requirements for entrance above stated, can show by passing
an examination given sometime during the first month of his first session that
he has done work equivalent to that covered by any of the following courses
offered in the college: Latin A1, Greek A1, Greek A2, English A1 or A2 or
A3, Mathematics A1, German A1, French A1, Spanish A1, Italian A1. Candidates
who apply for examination for advanced standing must present a special
certificate showing that the full content of the course, on which advanced
standing is sought, has been covered in a systematic manner in the preparatory
school, and in addition must present the specific recommendation of the principal
of the school that the candidate be admitted to the advanced standing
examination in question.
College Credit.—Candidates who desire credit for work done at other
colleges, must satisfy the entrance requirements for regular students, and must,
in addition, file with the Dean of the Department a certificate covering the
courses for which college credit is desired. The certificate must bear the official
signature of the head of the candidate's college, must specify the character and
content of the courses passed by the candidate, and must give his grades. The
final validation of those certificates which are provisionally accepted is effected
by the successful completion of not less than twelve session-hours of work during
his first session. In no case will credit be given on more than forty-five
session-hours of work done elsewhere, and any candidate who receives this
maximum amount of credit can count among the remaining fifteen session-hours
required for his degree only the credit value of the courses he has passed
as a resident student in the College of Arts and Sciences, exclusive of any
credit for work done in the Summer Quarter or in any of the professional departments.
In every case the candidate must spend the last session of his
candidacy, which must be a regular session of nine months, exclusively in
college work in this University; and the courses offered as major electives must
all have been completed in residence in this University. A maximum of fifteen
session-hours may be granted for one year of college work, and thirty-three
hours for two years.
In general credit will not be granted for work completed elsewhere with
the lowest passing grade, if the grades are given as letters, or with a grade
below 75 per cent., if the grades are given as percentages.
Conditioned Students.—A candidate for entrance must offer fifteen units
as defined by the Southern Commission on Accredited Schools. At least thirteen
of the units offered must be included in the list of units accepted for admission
on page 132. A student who, while able to offer fifteen units, cannot
offer fifteen units as defined in this list, may be conditioned on any two units
not including English A, B, or C, or Mathematics A1. All conditions should
be absolved before the beginning of the session following initial registration.
This may be done by passing entrance examinations or by passing equivalent
courses in the Summer Quarter. But no course taken to remove a condition
may be counted as part of the work credited toward a degree. No conditioned
student may be later registered as a special student.
Special Students.—A candidate may be admitted as a special student
without fulfilling the entrance requirements above specified, provided that, if
he is a Virginian, he is more than twenty years old, or, if he is not a Virginian,
he is more than twenty-three years old, on the day of registration, and
gives adequate evidence of serious purpose and of the training needed to pursue
with profit the courses for which he is registered. No special student may be
a candidate for a degree; but such students are permitted and encouraged to
make up their deficiencies by private study or by taking courses in the Summer
Quarter. They will then be admitted as regular students, and may be accepted
as applicants for degrees, provided all entrance requirements are met at least
one academic year before the date of graduation.
An applicant who has regularly attended a secondary school until he is
twenty years of age without, because of failure, obtaining credit for fifteen acceptable
entrance units, will not be admitted as a special student.
Admission of Women.—Women are admitted as candidates for the vocational
degrees of Bachelor of Science in a Special Subject, Bachelor of Science
in Architecture and Bachelor of Science in Commerce. A candidate must be
at least twenty years old on the birthday preceding matriculation; must present
a certificate showing graduation from an accredited public high school, or not
less than four years' attendance in an accredited private school, with credit for
not less than fifteen college entrance units obtained at least two years before
admission to the University; and must in addition show by proper certificate
the completion in a standard college, subsequent to the credit obtained for fifteen
entrance units, of at least thirty session-hours (sixty semester-hours), of courses
of college grade, in not less than eighteen calendar months.
