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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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ADMISSION TO T H E CURRICULA IN ARCHITECTURE (10) The Urbana-Champaign and the Chicago Undergraduate Division Senates recommend that the requirements for admission to the curricula in architecture be revised to read as follows, effective September 1, 1963. Number of Units Recommended High School Subject Required Additional English 3 1 Algebra 2 Plane Geometry 1 Trigonometry ._ Vi College Preparatory M a t h e m a t i c s . . . . .. More Science 2 1 Social Studies 2 1 Foreign Language 2 More Freehand Drawing -. 1 12.5 4 plus more mathematics and foreign language Students in architecture who have only one unit of algebra and one unit of plane geometry may be admitted on condition that the deficiency is removed in the first year. No credit toward graduation will be allowed for mathematics courses taken to remove a deficiency in entrance requirements. Required science must include at least one unit from two of the following subjects: physics and chemistry. A physical or biological science may be substituted for either physics or chemistry. General science may not be used as a require subject. The foreign language requirement for admission is fulfilled by two units in any one foreign language taken In an accredited high school. Alternatively, the language requirement for admission may be fulfilled by passing an entrance examination in any foreign language which is regularly taught in the University. Less than one unit in a foreign language is not acceptable for admission. A student entering the curricula in architecture as a freshman must have a scholastic rank in the upper half of his high school graduating class if he is a resident of Illinois, and a scholastic rank in the upper third of his high school graduating class if he is a nonresident of Illinois. A student with twelve semester hours or more of university credit who transfers from another collegiate institution or from a department in the University of Illinois to the curricula in architecture must have a scholastic average in his collegiate work of not less than 3.25 m terms of the grading system of the University of Illinois. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Swain, these changes were approved.

EXAMINATIONS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE SUBJECTS (11) The University, through the Office of Admissions and Records, gives three types of examinations in high school and college subjects: 1 Entrance examinations to applicants for admission to the University who are not graduates of accredited high schools or are deficient in some high school subjects; 2. High school examinations for persons who seek to qualify for admission to the study of law; and •>. Examinations in college subjects (prelegal) also for applicants who wish to qualify for the study of law. The entrance examinations were established by the Board of Trustees in the fitst year of the University primarily as a means of qualifying for admission to the University and these examinations have been offered since that time. A supplementary high school examination program was approved in the academic year 1917-18 by the Board of Trustees to assist applicants for admission to the examinations for the certificate of Certified Public Accountant to meet wucaiional requirements, and later to provide a method students might use to rc^e up high school deficiencies prior to studying law. The standards of the two sets of high school examinations are the same; credit earned in either may be