Our next semester opens January 20, and I hope we may have you with us then. Applications 6 and 7. Although the two remaining schools replied to the ludicrous letters of inquiry which were sent them by forwarding to the writer application forms, catalogues, and other promotional literature, the applications were not accepted after the schools were unable to receive high school equivalency certificates from the applicants. Despite the many declarations by chiropractors that their schools are professional in character, the study indicates that one does not have to be a high school graduate to be admitted to many of these chiropractic schools. The observations, made in 1949 by a committee appointed by the Governor of the state of New Jersey to study chiropractic, remain valid today and underscore the basic weakness of the requirements for admission to chiropractic schools.
Maturity comes largely with the passing of time.
Few individuals coming directly from high schools at the age of about 18 are mature enough, especially intellectually, to satisfactorily undertake what should be the equivalent of a medical school course. The members of the faculty of the Chiropractic Institute of New York which the Committee interviewed said frankly that, because none of the sciences taught in high school are a prerequisite for admission, their teaching of such sciences as biology and chemistry must begin on the lowest level. The failure of chiropractic schools to comply with their own professed requirements for admission merely compounds the inadequacy of such requirements. It is not surprising, therefore, that no chiropractic school is accredited by any of the recognized regional accrediting bodies in the United States. The only accreditation mentioned in chiropractic literature is their own.