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ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

Requirements for the Admission of Men.—To be admitted to regular standing
in the Department of Education, men must have satisfied the entrance
requirements of the College. Students who have decided to enter the teaching
profession at the time of entering college should register with the Dean
of the Department of Education in order to be advised in planning their
curricula. Holders of State Teachers' Scholarships are required to register
in the Department of Education.

Requirements for the Admission of Women.—To be admitted to regular
standing in the Department of Education, women must be twenty years of
age, must meet the entrance requirements of the University and must have
completed two years of College work aggregating thirty session-hours in
academic subjects. Candidates not able to meet these requirements may
make up their deficiencies during the summer quarter.

Special Students.—(a) Graduates of colleges and universities other than
the University of Virginia, desiring to secure the necessary professional
training to qualify for the Collegiate Professional Certificate, may register
in the Department of Education, and upon completion of the required
courses receive a certificate which will entitle them to the Collegiate Professional
Certificate issued by the State Board of Education.

(b) Men may be admitted as special students without fulfilling the
entrance requirements above specified, provided that, if they are Virginians,
they are more than twenty years old or, if they are not Virginians, they are
more than twenty-three years old on the day of registration, and give adequate
evidence of serious purpose and of the training needed to pursue with
profit the courses for which they are registered. No special student may
be a candidate for a degree; but such students are permitted and encouraged
to make up 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.

(c) Women, twenty-five years of age, giving satisfactory evidence that
they are qualified to pursue courses in Education successfully, may be admitted
as special students, even though they fail to show credit for the 30
session-hours of academic work required of women for admission to regular
standing.

In addition to the above, each candidate must pass at the University a
qualifying examination in English before his registration can be completed.
This examination will be held on Monday of the first week of the session.

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, German A1, Mathmetics A1, French A, Spanish A. 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. This examination will be held
on the Tuesday of the week during which entrance examinations are held.

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 such certificates is effected by the successful
completion of not less than 12 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 15 session-hours
may be granted for one year of college work, and 33 hours for
two years.

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 117. 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.