Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-06-02
THE UNIVERSITY
REQUIREMENTS
NUMEROUS INQUIRIES PROMPT
UNIVERSITY TO PREPARE
REQUIREMENTS LIST.

Because Of numerous inquiries
from many parts of the state as to
the requirements for admission into
the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, the university has prepared
the following list, which details the
various requirements which the pro-
spective students must meet:
Applicants for admission must be
sixteen years of age, must have COM
pleted full four-year course in n
standard high school, and must pre-
sent at least fifteen acceptable units
covering the specific requirements.
Only those are admitted without eX-
animation who are graduates of an
accredited high school and are Off
cially recommended by the Principal.
All others must pass examination IN
fifteen units.
1t is expected that the Principal
will recommend not every graduate,
but only those whose character, abil-
ity, application, and scholarship are
so clearly superior that the school is
willing to stand sponsor for their sue
cess at the University. While high
grade of work in the various prepar-
atory studies is presupposed, the Uni
versity demands above all that those
who enter shall have developed men
tai power, habits of systematic work,
and the determination to apply them
selves steadily to their studies, which
form the prime purpose of the Uni
versity OF the freshmen entering in
recent years, too great number
er satisfactory grades in all their
failed to earn during the first semest-
courses, their records varying all the
way from a single unsatisfactory
grade to dismissal on account Of poor
scholarship. This result is undesir-
able and disappointing to all con-
cerned
The responsibility for failure on
the part of freshmen in the university
rests partly with the high school au-
thorities and partly with those of the
university. The high school author
tiles can aid greatly in the reduction
Of the number Of failures by giving
attention to the following recommen-
dations, which are made by joint
committee Of the faculties Of the Col
leges of the University and of High
School Principals
(a) That all high school stu
dents, especially Juniors and seniors,
be given adequate advice relative to
entrance requirements.
OBJ That every high school stu
dent be required to take a final ex-
animation each semester in every
study carried, in order that the stu
dent may be adequately prepared to
take the difficult examinations in col
lege work.
(c) That the junior and senior
years be devoted mainly to advanced
courses especially designed for those
grades.
(d) That stricter discrimination
be made in the matter of recommend
ing studynts, to the end that the
ideals expressed in the foregoing par
agraphs be satisfied. Recommends
tions should cover unqualifiedly the
students entire preparation.
(c) That the grade for recon-.
mendation to the university be dis.
tnctly higher than that required fol
graduation. (E. G. If the passing
mark be rs, grade of 50 in most
cases should be required for recon-
mendation).
(f) That mental tests be given tt
seniors in order to supplement other
information regarding scholarship
ability, and aptitude.
(g) That the Principal advise
prospective freshmen concerning the
first-year elections in the University
"a special bulletin on this subject j.
now in preparatory
In this most important process o.
transferring well qualified student,
from one division of the school sys
TEN to the next, the University here
by expresses its appreciation of tn,
hearty cooperation of the higl
schools in the past, and looks conf
IDENTIFY for still closer and more eff
fective cooperation in the future.