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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,
as detailed below.

For admission to the Department of Graduate Studies, see page 220.

For admission to the Department of Law, see page 292.

For admission to the Department of Medicine, see page 305.

For admission to the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Education,
or the Department of Engineering, 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 Sciences, page 205; for the Department
of Education, page 228; for the Department of Engineering, page 252.

Admission of Women.—The admission of women to the several departments
of the University is subject to the following conditions:

1. General Requirements: The applicant 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.

2. Specific Departmental Requirements: These will be found in the requirements
for admission to each of the several departments.

SUBJECTS ACCEPTED FOR ADMISSION

The subjects accepted for admission and their values in units are given
below in tabulated form. Fuller definitions of the units may be had upon application
to the Dean.

                                                                                               

SUBJECT	TOPICS	UNITS
English A	Grammar and Grammatical Analysis	1
English B	Composition and Rhetoric	1
English C	Critical Study of Specimens of English Literature	1
English D	English or American Literature	1
Mathematics A1	Algebra to Quadratic Equations	1
Mathematics A2	Quadratics, Progressions, and the Binomial Formula	½ or 1
Mathematics B	Plane Geometry	1
Mathematics C	Solid Geometry	½
Mathematics D	Plane Trigonometry	½
History A	Greek and Roman History	1
History B	Medieval and Modern European History	1
History C	English History	1
History D	American History and Civil Government	1
Latin A	Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Latin B	Caesar's Gallic War, I-IV; Grammar; Composition	1
Latin C	Cicero's Orations (6); Grammar; Composition	1
Latin D	Virgil's Aeneid, I-VI; Grammar; Composition	1
Greek A	Elementary Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Greek B	Xenophon's Anabasis, I-VI; Grammar; Composition	1
Greek C	Homer's Iliad, I-III; Grammar; Composition	1
German A	Elementary Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
German B	Intermediate Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
German C	Third-year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
German D	Fourth-year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
French A	Elementary Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
French B	Intermediate Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
French C	Third-year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
French D	Fourth-year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Spanish A	Elementary Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Spanish B	Intermediate Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Spanish C	Third-year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Spanish D	Fourth-year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Science A	Physical Geography	1
Science B	Inorganic Chemistry	1
Science C	Experimental Physics	1
Science D	Botany	½
Science E	Zoölogy	½
VOCATIONAL SUBJECTS (Not more than four Units)
Manual Training	Mechanical and Projection Drawing	½ to 1
	Free-Hand Drawing	½ to 1
	Shop-work	½ to 1
Agriculture	(Accredited Agricultural Schools)	1 to 4
Commercial Subjects	Commercial Geography	½
	Shorthand	½ to 1
	Typewriting	½
	Bookkeeping	1
	Commercial Arithmetic	½ to 1

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 sample 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.

PROGRAM OF ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS

                           

June, 1929	9-11 A. M.	11 A. M.-1 P. M.	3-5 P. M.	Sept., 1929
Mon. 3	Science D	Greek C	Science F	Mon. 9
	Science E	Science A	Science C
	French A	French B	History D
Tues. 4	English A	English B	English C	Tues. 10
	Greek A	Greek B	French C
Wed. 5	History A	History B	History C	Wed. 11
	Spanish A	Spanish B	Science B
Thurs. 6	Math. A1	Math. A2	Math. B	Thurs. 12
			French D
Fri. 7	German A	German B	German D	Fri. 13
	Spanish C	Spanish D	Math. C and D
Sat. 8	Latin A	Latin C	Latin D	Sat. 14
	Latin B	German C	English D

ADVANCED STANDING AND COLLEGE CREDIT

For admission to the College of Arts and Sciences with advanced standing
on work done at a secondary school, or with college credit for work done at
another college or university, or in the Summer Quarter of this University,
see pages 205 and 206.

For credit in the Department of Engineering, or the Department of Medicine,
for work done in another professional school, see, respectively, pages 254 and 308.

CONDITIONED STUDENTS

For admission with conditions to the College of Arts and Sciences, see page
206; to the Department of Engineering, page 253.

SPECIAL STUDENTS

For admission to the College of Arts and Sciences as a special student, see
page 206; to the Department of Law, page 294; to the Department of Engineering,
page 253.