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50 ADMISSION AND CLASSIFICATION.
2. Candidates are expected at their first presentation to take all the
prescribed subjects of the primary entrance examination before trying
the advanced examinations.
3. No account will be taken of the result of such preliminary exam
inations unless at least four subjects are satisfactorily passed.
Candidates intending to offer Greek at this preliminary examination
may present themselves for examination in the Anabasis. Those in
tending to offer Latin may offer Caesar, or either Virgil or Cicero.
Students deficient in any of the subjects required for admission, who
may be admitted to the University by the Faculty in spite of such de
ficiencies, must make tip all deficiencies within one year, and they
will not in that case be permitted to remove them by attending Uni
versity instruction in those subjects ; but are required to take the
necessary instruction outside of the University.
ADMISSION WITHOUT EXAMINATION.
I. On the Regents' Diploma.
Diplomas issued by the Regents of the University of the State of
New York are accepted in place of examinations in all the subjects
required for entrance which are covered by such diplomas, including,
upon the recommendation of the University departments concerned,
the subjects of French, German, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Geology,
and Zoology. A statement from the teacher giving in detail the work
done and the proficiency attained in these subjects, must be submitted
by
the holder of the diploma.
Certificates ( for exceptions see under College of Law and Veterinary
and Medical Colleges) and pass cards issued by the Regents are not
Regents'
accepted unless they are presented by the holder of a di
ploma.
If a student fail in any subject in the University that depends upon
an entrance subject, for which a Regents'
the credit for that entrance subject may be cancelled.
diploma has been accepted,
To secure exemption from the entrance examination in English,
(see page 33), the diploma must cover eight academic English counts,
including English Composition, or three full years of the English
course established by the Regents, February, 1893.
These Regents"
diplomas, however, do not exempt from the en
trance English examination prescribed for competitors for the
University scholarships, see p. 39.
Application for credit in all subjects for which credit is desired,
must be made at the time of the admission of the applicant, and not
be postponed to any later date in his course.