ADMISSION WITH ADVANCED STANDING

ADMISSION FROM OTHER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

Applicants may be given advanced standing in the University of California on the basis of certificates from other colleges and universities, upon the approval of the certificates by the proper committee. A form of statement of university work, which may be used for such certificates, will be furnished on application to the Recorder of the Faculties. It may be filled out by the applicant himself, but should be duly certified by the proper officer of the institution in which the work was done. There should also be submitted some credentials showing in detail the basis upon which the applicant was matriculated in the institution from which he comes, and the preparatory subjects for which matriculation credit was given. These documents should be filed with the Recorder of the Faculties, in order that they may be placed before the Board of Admissions, for an estimate of their value in terms of the requirements of the University of California. The Board, acting on behalf of the faculties, is empowered to reject the certificates, in whole or in part, and to require examination in any or all of the subjects offered.

Credit for Subject A (English expression) is not given upon certificate. An examination at the University is required in all cases.

ADMISSION FROM NORMAL SCHOOLS

A recommended graduate of a two-year academic course in a California State Normal School, if also a graduate (with University recommendation) of an accredited high school, receives in the University two years of advanced standing. Of this amount, a half-year is credited toward the high school teacher's recommendation, reducing the post-graduate course required by the University from a year to a half-year. The remaining year and a half counts as a part of the four-year undergraduate course, thus reducing the time required for the bachelor's degree from four years to two and a half years. Exceptions: The two-year curriculum of the San Francisco State Normal School ordinarily entitles the applicant to one year of advanced standing in the University. Graduates of the State Normal School at Chico will, as a rule, find it necessary to devote to the completion of the undergraduate course in the University at least two years and a half plus one summer session.

The foregoing allowance of credit is conditioned upon the presentation by the applicant of satisfactory recommendations both from his high

school and from the normal school. The applicant is expected to present recommendations for the maximum allowance of credit as above.

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Credentials from high schools and normal schools of states other than California are evaluated in accordance with this general plan. applicant must in every such case submit the detailed record of his high school and later studies in order that the Board of Admissions may be satisfied that the applicant has met the California requirements both as to selection of his studies and as to scholarship standing. Blank forms for statement of the applicant's studies are supplied by the University on request.

In technical or highly specialized fields of study the normal school graduate may not be able to take the maximum of advanced standing as above. He does not receive a year and a half of advanced standing in the colleges of engineering or in the premedical curriculum, since these curricula include a number of prescribed university subjects which are not paralleled in the normal school curriculum. Normal school graduates who have had little or no training in foreign language will ordinarily find it impossible to take advanced work in foreign languages in the University in a programme of study leading to the bachelor's degree in two and one-half years.

ADMISSION FROM SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN THE ORIENT

Graduates of approved schools and colleges in China, Japan, India and other Oriental countries may be admitted only if their command of English is sufficient to permit them to profit by university instruction. This will be tested by an oral and written examination set by the Board of Admissions. A brief circular concerning the rules of the Board of Admissions in the matter of assignment of credit in languages to foreign students may be obtained from the Recorder of the Faculties.

SURPLUS MATRICULATION CREDIT

With the adoption of the revised plan of admission to the University there is no longer provision for advanced standing in the University on the basis of surplus high school credit. Such credit may, by special action of the Board of Admissions, be given under the old rules to students who matriculate in the University before August, 1920.

ADMISSION OF SPECIAL STUDENTS

Special students are students of mature years who have not completed a satisfactory course in an accredited high school but who, by reason of special attainments, y be allowed to undertake certain courses not as candidates for degrees.

Save in the case of returned soldiers and sailors (see below), no person less than twenty-one years of age will be admitted to special status, but it is specifically emphasized that mere attainment of any given age does not constitute adequate qualification for admission to this status.

Applicants will not be admitted directly from the secondary schools to the status of special student.

The graduates of accredited high schools are not admitted as special students, but are expected to qualify for regular undergraduate standing in accordance with the usual rules. Such students may, with the approval of the proper study-lists officer, pursue strictly elective or limited programmes, if they do not desire to be candidates for degrees.

The University is willing to consider for admission to its courses applicants who have been in the Army or Navy of the United States or of the allies and, until January 15, 1921, without restriction as to age. In so doing it recognizes maturity as a warrant for allowing these applicants to undertake work in its courses, provided their preparation is such as to make it probable that they will be able to undertake the work with profit. The University does not contemplate the waiving of any portion of the high school or college course in determining fitness for graduation. The University has no "special courses''; all courses are organized for regular students-that is, students who have had the equivalent of a good high school education and have been fully matriculated. Special students are admitted to such regular courses as they may be adjudged capable of mastering. They will seldom be able to undertake the work of the engineering and professional schools until all or nearly all the matriculation requirements shall have been met, and, while a member of the College of Letters and Science will be able to do a part of the prerequisite work of these schools and colleges at the University, instruction is not offered in such essential subjects as elementary English, elementary algebra, plane geometry, elementary Latin and Caesar and, save in the summer session, elementary physics and elementary chemistry. Before applying for admission, then, one should see that he is prepared in these subjects whenever they are prerequisite to work he may wish to do in the University.

The administration of special students is in the hands of the Board of Admissions. Prospective applicants should communicate with this

board through the Recorder of the Faculties, who will furnish forms for application for admission and for transcript of high school record.

Applications should be made at least six months in advance, since entrance examinations, at least in subjects of fundamental importance for the work proposed will be prescribed in practically all cases, and time should be allowed for preparation.

In general, admission to the University can be completed only by personal conference with the University Examiner, and with the departments, schools or colleges concerned.

ADMISSION TO GRADUATE STANDING

Persons holding the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Letters, Philosophy, or Science from a reputable institution authorized by law to confer these degrees, or holding any other degree or certificate which the Academic Senate may accept as equivalent, may be admitted as graduate students in the University of California upon presenting proper credentials.

The grade of work to which graduate students are assigned and their standing as candidates for a degree will depend upon the extent and character of their undergraduate courses. If in any department the preliminary training of applicants has not been sufficient to qualify them for strictly graduate work, they may be admitted to such undergraduate courses as may be suited to their needs. The status of all graduate students will lapse at the close of each academic year, unless they have been admitted to candidacy for degrees; but on application it may be renewed at the discretion of the Graduate Council. For the conditions under which the advanced degrees may be obtained see the latest ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE GRADUATE DIVISION, to be obtained on application to the Recorder of the Faculties.

COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE

LOWER DIVISION

The work of the lower division comprises the studies of the freshman and sophomore years. The junior certificate marks the transition from the lower division to the upper division.

The junior certificate in the College of Letters and Science will be required for admission to the upper division in and after August 1921, of all candidates for the bachelor's degree except those who in August 1920, shall have completed more than 30 units in the lower division. Students who shall have completed from 13 to 30 units in August, 1920, will be released from requirements b, c, and d given below, but not from

requirements a and e. Those having more than 30 units in August, 1920, may be granted the junior certificate if they fulfill all the requirements except b, c, and d, and in that case may graduate with the 120-unit minimum instead of the 124-unit minimum.

In the lower division of the College of Letters and Science it is expected that the student, in addition to fulfilling the prerequisites for the major work upon which he will concentrate in the upper division, will make an effort to establish a basis for that breadth of culture which will give him a realization of the methods and results of some of the more important types of intellectual endeavor, and a mental perspective that will aid him in reaching sound judgments. The junior certificate requirements were designed to provide in some degree for the accomplishment of this purpose, without unduly limiting the student's opportunity to satisfy his special tastes and preferences.

Certain courses taken in the high school are accepted as fulfilling in part or in whole some of these junior certificate requirements. It is desirable that the student should so arrange his high school program as to reduce the required work in the fields of foreign language, mathematics, and natural science. This makes his program more flexible, gives him a greater freedom of choice, and prepares him to pass more quickly into advanced work or into new fields of study. In no case however, does the satisfaction of junior certificate requirements in the high school reduce the minimum amount of work required in the University for the junior certificate (60) or for the degree (120).

The junior certificate will be granted on the completion of not less than 60 units of college work and the fulfillment of the following specific requirements:

(a) General University Requirements.

Subject A*.

Military, 6 units (men).

Hygiene, 1 unit (men) or 2 units (women).

Physical Education, 2 units.

(b) Foreign Language. At least 15 units in not more than two languages. Each year of high school work in a foreign language will be counted in satisfaction of 3 units of this requirement. Courses given in English by a foreign language department will not be accepted in fulfillment of this requirement.

(e) Mathematics. Elementary Algebra and Geometry. These subjects are not regularly given in the University except in the Extension Division,

* An examination in Subject A: English Composition is required of all intrants at the time of their first registration in the University. Date of next examination: Saturday, August 14, 1920, 2 p. m. For further regulations concerning Subject A see General Regulations of the

Faculties.