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 schools. 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 fifteen 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 list and for any other subject counted by
a standard accredited high school as part of the requirements for its diploma, provided
that at least eleven units must be offered in groups I-V:
Group I. English. (Three units required)
Literature and Composition.
Group II. Foreign Languages. (Two 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. (Two units required)
Elementary Algebra, Advanced Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry,
Trigonometry.
Group IV. History. (One 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.
