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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 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. These differ
from the requirements stated beyond 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 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 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.