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ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

For admission to any department of the University, the general conditions are
the following:

1. Sufficient Age.—The minimum legal age is sixteen years.

2. Good Character.—This must be attested by a certificate of honorable
dismissal from the school last attended, or by other valid proof.

3. Adequate Preparation.—This must be such as will enable the candidate
to meet the requirements for admission to the several departments of the
University.

For admission to the College of Arts and Sciences, the candidate must
present a certificate or pass an equivalent examination. In either case the amount
of preparation required is measured in terms of units.

This definition of a unit takes the four-year high school course as a basis
and assumes that the length of the school year is from thirty-six to forty weeks,
that a period is from forty to sixty minutes in length, and that the study is pursued
for four or five periods a week; but under ordinary circumstances a satisfactory
year's work in any subject cannot be accomplished in less than one hundred and
twenty hours, or their equivalent.

For the requirements as to the number and selection of the units required for
entrance, see for the College of Arts and Science, the Bulletin of that Department.

ADMISSION BY CERTIFICATE

For admission by certificate from a secondary school the applicant should file
with the Dean of the University, not later than September 1, a certificate of
preparation, made out on the blank form furnished by the University. This certificate
must come from an accredited public high school or from an accredited
private secondary school. For admission from an institution of collegiate rank,
an official transcript of the applicant's record, made out on the form used by the
institution in question, must be submitted. In addition, each applicant, whether
from a secondary school or a college, must submit a formal application for admission,
on a blank form supplied by the University.

The candidate for admission from a public high school must be a full graduate
of an accredited four-year high school.

The candidate for admission from a private secondary school must be a full
graduate of the school, or must present a certificate showing that he has completed
at least the equivalent of four years of satisfactory secondary school work
of standard grade, covering at least fifteen entrance units.

An applicant for admission from a secondary school which requires a special
grade for recommendation to college must have made the grade required by his
school or must have ranked in the upper three-quarters of his class.

In every case an applicant must have the general recommendation of the
principal of his school.

The University accredits all four-year public high schools and all private
secondary schools which are fully accredited by the State Board of Education of
Virginia. Schools outside of Virginia which are fully accredited by their own
state universities or institutions of equal rank, by their own state departments of
education or by recognized regional associations of secondary schools, are also
accredited by the University.

Certificate credit for any entrance unit is invalidated by subsequent failure
in a college entrance examination on the unit in question.

Certificates of preparation from private tutors will in no case be accepted;
students thus prepared must in all cases pass the entrance examinations.

ADMISSION BY EXAMINATION

For admission by examination, the candidate must present himself at the
University in June or in September, according to the dates given in the Program
of Entrance Examinations. The examinations are held under the honor system,
no paper being accepted unless accompanied by the usual pledge, and they are held
only on the dates given in the Program of Entrance Examinations.

A fee of one dollar is charged for each examination taken. This fee is payable
in advance, and is in no case returned.

The entrance examinations of the University are similar, in many respects,
to those of the College Entrance Examination Board. The University does not
furnish copies of its entrance examinations.

Official records of the examinations of the College Entrance Examination
Board or of the University of the State of New York may be submitted in lieu of
taking entrance examinations here.