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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 272.

For admission to the Department of Law, see page 367.

For admission to the Department of Medicine, see page 381.

For admission to the Department of Education, see page 286.

For admission to the College of Arts and Sciences, 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 186, for the Department
of Engineering, page 307.

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
15 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 15 entrance units, of at
least 30 session-hours (60 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.

ADMISSION BY CERTIFICATE

For admission by certificate from a secondary school the applicant should
file with the Dean a certificate of preparation, made out on a 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, should submit a formal application for admission, on a
blank from 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 15 entrance units.

Certificate credit for any unit is invalidated by failure in a college entrance
examination on the unit in question in the year admission is desired,
unless the applicant ranked in the highest quarter of his class.

An applicant for admission who ranked in the lowest quarter of his
class, or who failed on more than two subjects in secondary school, will not
be admitted unless he presents positive evidence that he is likely to succeed
in college in spite of his secondary school record.

An applicant for admission from outside of Virginia may be required to
supplement his application by an interview with a representative of the University.

In every case the applicant must have a general character recommendation
from the principal of his school, and personality and promise, as well as
scholarly attainment, will be considered in determining admission.

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.

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 September, according to the dates given in the Schedule 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 Schedule. A fee of one dollar is
charged for each examination taken. This fee is payable in advance and is

in no case returned. In order to take the examinations it is only necessary
for the candidate to register for them at the Dean's Office, after his arrival
here.

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.

SCHEDULE OF ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS

Monday, September 14, to Friday, September 18.

                                                       

English: Four years	2:30 p. m.	Tuesday
History A: Ancient	9:00 a. m.	Tuesday
History B: Modern European	11:00 a. m.	Tuesday
History C: English	9:00 a. m.	Tuesday
History D: American	11:00 a. m.	Tuesday
Mathematics A: Algebra, Two years	9:00 a. m.	Friday
Mathematics B: Advanced Algebra	9:00 a. m.	Friday
Mathematics C: Plane Geometry	11:00 a. m.	Friday
Mathematics D: Solid Geometry	11:00 a. m.	Friday
Mathematics E: Plane Trigonometry	2:30 p. m.	Friday
Biology:	9:00 a. m.	Monday
Botany:	11:00 a. m.	Monday
Chemistry:	9:00 a. m.	Monday
Physical Geography:	11:00 a. m.	Monday
Physics:	2:30 p. m.	Monday
Zoölogy:	2:30 p. m.	Monday
French 2: Two years	9:00 a. m.	Wednesday
French 3: Third year	11:00 a. m.	Wednesday
French 4: Fourth year	2:30 p. m.	Wednesday
German 2: Two years	9:00 a. m.	Thursday
German 3: Third year	11:00 a. m.	Thursday
German 4: Fourth year	2:30 p. m.	Thursday
Latin 2: Two years	9:00 a. m.	Thursday
Latin 3: Third year	11:00 a. m.	Thursday
Latin 4: Fourth year	2:30 p. m.	Thursday
Spanish 2: Two years	9:00 a. m.	Wednesday
Spanish 3: Third year	11:00 a. m.	Wednesday
Spanish 4: Fourth year	2:30 p. m.	Wednesday

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
page 186.

For credit in the Department of Education, the Department of Engineering,
the Department of Law, or the Department of Medicine, for work done in another
professional school, see respectively, pages 287, 309, 369, and 385.

CONDITIONED STUDENTS

For admission with conditions to the College of Arts and Sciences, see page
186; to the Department of Engineering, page 308.

SPECIAL STUDENTS

For admission to the College of Arts and Sciences, as a special student, see
page 187; to the Department of Law, page 369; to the Department of Engineering,
page 308; to the Department of Education, page 287.