The Washington times., 1933-07-01

mum OF 10 Carnegle unlLS.
A Carnegie unit" represents a
years study in any subject in a
secondary school, constituting ap-
proximately quarter of a full
years work, and includes in the
aggregate not less than 100 60
minute hours of prepared class
room work.
Quality Demands
However, where the District COL
leges do not in any instance per-
nit use by an applicant for en-
trance of more than four nom
solid elective subjects, some of the
conference colleges permit use OF
as many as six, and even more.
The reader should understand
that non-solid electives are in
ferior in quality to solid electives,
in that non-solid electives include,
among others, commercial sub
jects (typewriting, shorthand,
penmanship, bookkeeping. etc. I,
subjects in domestic science, draw
ing, theory and history of music,
manual arts and vocational agri-
culture, while solid electives are
limited to the five cultural fields
of English, languages. history,
mathematics and science.
Further, while George Wash
ington and Georgetown, for in
stance, demand that an entering
student must have achieved a
superior numerical ranking in his
graduating high school class, OF
the Southern Conference colleges
only University of Virginia mem
tions this phase of entrance re-
quirements.
Numerical Ranking
Georgetown permits entrance of
a student upon presentation of
a principals certificate of gradu-
ton from a standard high school
and a detailed record of the high
school work completed by the
student. Certification by the
principal that the student is quail
flied for higher studies must also
be presented. Georgetown states
that she expects such certification
will not be given by the principal
to a graduating high school STU
dent who has received a grade
of less than 10 per cent in any
subject studied in the students
last year of high school. Since,
generally speaking, the high
school passing mark is so per
cent, therefor, Georgetown's re-
quirement in this respect forces
an entering student to rank in
the upper three-fourths. of his
high school graduating class.
George Washington University
requires that an entering student
must have achieved a numerical
ranking in the upper four-fifths
of his graduating high school
class, if he is presenting a prin-
cipal'S certificate of graduation
from a regionally accredited high
school, or must have achieved a
numerical ranking in the upper
one-fifth of his high school grad
uating class, if he is presenting
a principals certificate of gradua-
ton from State accredited hign
school.
University of Virginia requires
of an entering student that he be
a full graduate of an accredited
high school Estate or regionaD
and that if the student desiring
to enter ranked in the lowest one
quarter of his graduating high
school class he will not be ad-
mitted. unless he presents posi-
tive evidence that he is likely to
succeed in college despite his Sec
ondary school record.
Difference Exists
The observation is necessary
that a regionally accredited high
school is one which meets the
standard requirements of an in
specting and approving commit
tee representing the colleges and
secondary schools of a geograph-
ical area, without consideration
for standards set up by any
State educational board, while
the State accredited high school
curricula in most instance S
merely meets the requirements of
State educational boards who are
guided by purely local conditions
in establishing educational stand
ards for secondary schools. re-
sulting, for the most part, in in
ferior standards for State accred.
tied high schools as against su.