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THE COLLEGE OF LAW. 185
Admission to Advanced Standing. Applicants for admission to
advanced standing as members of the Junior (second-year) class must
be at least nineteen years of age, must meet the educational require
ment specified above for admission to the first-year class, and must
pass a satisfactory examination in all the law work of the first year, or
offer satisfactory certificates of the completion of such work in another
law school whose entrance requirements are equal to those of this col
lege and whose course of study requires three years for its completion.
Certificates of law work must specify the number of class-room hours
given to each subject and the text-books used, and must be forwarded
directly from an officer of the school issuing the certificate to the
of the College of Law.
Secretary
Admission as Special Students. Applicants who are twenty
years of age may, in the discretion of the Faculty, be admitted to the
college without examination as special students, not candidates for a
degree, and may elect such work as they desire, subject to the per
mission of the professors whose subjects are selected. This privilege
will be granted only upon written application specifying the age of the
applicant, the amount of preparatory study or of previous law study,
and accompanied if practicable by certificates from the preparatory
school, law school, or attorney, under whose direction such studies
have been pursued. New York students will not be admitted as spe
cial students unless they present a Regents'
Law Student Certificate.
Applicants are advised to correspond with the Secretary of the College
of Law before presenting themselves in person. In order to remain
in the college special students must pass satisfactory examinations in
at least ten hours of work (equal to two class-rooms hours a day).
Special students may be admitted as candidates for a degree if they
pass the required entrance examinations before the of beginning their
second year in the College.
Admission of Students from the Academic Department.
Juniors and Seniors in good standing in the Academic Department of
the University are allowed, with permission of the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences and with the consent of the of Faculty the College of
Law in each case, to elect studies in the College of Law which shall
count toward graduation both in the academic course and in the Col
lege ; but the sum total of hours so elected cannot exceed the number
required for one year's work in the College of Law, or exceed nine
hours per week in any term. Under this provision a student may
complete a general course of University study and the law course in
six years.