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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

ADMISSION BY TRANSFER FROM OTHER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES A person who has entered another college or university of recognized standing will be admitted to this University upon presenting a certificate of honorable dismissal from the institution from which he comes and an official statement of the subjects upon which he was admitted to such institution, provided it appears that the subjects'are those required here for admission by examination, or real equivalents. Candidates, to enter the University in this way, should submit such papers to the Registrar before the time of entrance, so that all doubtful points may be cleared up in advance. ADMISSION AS SPECIAL STUDENTS Persons over twenty-one years of age, not candidates for a degree, may be admitted to classes, after satisfying the President and the professor in charge of the department in which such classes are taught, that they possess the requisite information and ability to pursue profitably, as special students, the chosen subjects. Such students are not matriculated ; they pay a tuition fee of seven dollars and a half a semester, in addition to the regular incidental fee of twelve dollars. In the College of Agriculture special students may be received at sixteen years of age subject to the same conditions as other special students, except that they may hold scholarships in agriculture (p. 272). ADMISSION TO ADVANCED STANDING After satisfying in some of the ways already enumerated all the entrance requirements for admission to the University, and after matriculating, the applicant for advanced standing may secure such standing either by examination or by transfer of credits from some other college or university. 1. By Examination.—Candidates for advanced standing, not from other colleges or universities, may secure such standing on examination. In the case of freshman students