Freshman Admission by High School Certificate
Freshman Standing
Each applicant must request the guidance counselor or principal of his school to forward a copy of his official high school transcript directly to the University's Director of Admissions.
Applicants from approved high schools will be admitted to the freshman class upon certification that the applicant is a high school graduate and is recommended for college work and provided the applicant has met all other requirements for admission.
Required Units
Applicants should have received a high school certificate and have at least 16-18 acceptable units of secondary school work. (A unit is defined as five 45-minute periods each week for 36 weeks.)
Ten of these units must be in academic subjects. The following distribution of units is recommended: English (three units), mathematics (two units), natural science (one unit), social studies or history (two units), and foreign language (two units).
Students deficient in entrance requirements, but whom the University is willing to accept, must make up deficiencies by taking additional hours on the university level. These hours are added to the total of 128 required for graduation. Since one semester of college work is usually construed to be the equivalent of a year's high school course, a student deficient one-half unit of academic electives is required 130 hours for graduation; a student deficient one unit, 131 hours for graduation, etc. These additional hours must be taken in the areas of study in which the student is deficient.