Ever since school started, and for several days before that time, the credits committee, headed by Miss Mitchell, has been at work checking up the Seniors for High School graduation and College Entrance Requirements.
As soon as the work with the Seniors has been completed, conferences will be held with the Juniors and others. However, it may be of some help for the students to know certain facts about College Entrance Requirements, so they may be sure of meeting them.
Practically every college, for boys or girls, requires Mathematics through Plane Geometry. An engineering course generally requires Solid Geometry as well.
A single year of a foreign language is without value for college entrance, with a few rare exceptions.
If Latin is offered, practically all colleges require that it shall have been completed through four books of Caesar.
Most colleges require four years of foreign language for entrance, either four years of one language, or two years each of two languages. The most acceptable plan is four years of Latin and two of modern language. The B.A. course at the University of N.C. requires two foreign languages for entrance.
It is by far the best plan for a student to have in mind from the time he enters High School, the college and course for which he is preparing. Then his High School credits may be planned in such a way that he may not be embarrassed, upon graduation, to find that he is not eligible to enter the college of his choice, or to pursue the course he desires.
The students should be thinking this matter over and discussing it with their parents so that they may have in mind at least a working basis when they are called upon for their plans. Of course, it is altogether probable that their plans may change before graduation, but having a definite aim will surely come nearer to bringing them safely to their goal than wandering about haphazard.
Miss Mitchell will be glad to talk it over with any student at any time. She has in her office catalogs of most of the colleges students may be interested in, and she will be glad to order any others that any student may desire.
“Look them over, or take them home for your parent’s use, just being sure to return them the next morning so that other students may use them also,” encourages Miss Mitchell in her efforts to get every student to plan his present work toward his future college requirements.
From the front page of High Life, Greensboro High School, Oct. 9, 1925
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