ADMISSION TO THE COLLEGE

A student may enter the College of Engineering as a matriculated student, registered as a candidate for a degree, or as a special student, permitted to attend such courses in the College as he may be qualified to take, but not as a candidate for a degree.

Applicants may submit certificates of secondary school records to the College Registrar after March 15 for the next September opening of College or after December 1 for the next February opening. The forms for certification will be provided on request. While it is understood that a complete secondary school record will not usually be available until later, the partial record will serve for preliminary consideration of the application.

It is required that each applicant present himself for an interview at a time arranged by the Registrar so that the College may evaluate his probable fitness to do engineering college work and subsequently to find employment in the profession. This estimate will be on the basis of physical and emotional fitness and on previous scholastic achievement. In instances where the evidence is not reasonably conclusive, certain tests and examinations may be required. A fee will be charged for this testing service.

Every applicant for entrance into the Freshman Class must furnish to the College a statement of good moral character.

Class room and laboratory facilities, demands of good instruction, and prospects of employment in a particular field limit the number of students to be admitted each year. It was found necessary, in view of these factors, to close the September 1938-39 admissions in Industrial Chemistry on August 15, 1938, and to require that the matriculation fee be paid at that time. There is a possibility that this and other courses may be affected by similar closing dates and that the matriculation fee may be payable on notification by the Registrar prior to the registration dates published in this catalog.

It is requested that all Freshmen complete their registration arrangements for September 1939-40 admissions before Wednesday, September 13, 1939, at twelve noon. An extra registration fee will be required of those who register after that time. Similarly, February admissions will be closed at noon on the Wednesday of registration week, and the extra registration fee will be held effective after that time.

ENTRANCE SUBJECTS

All candidates for matriculation must offer eight entrance units in the following required subjects:

SUBJECT College Entrance Examination Board Equivalents

English—4 years 3 units English

Elementary Algebra 1 unit Mathematics A1

Intermediate Algebra ½ unit Mathematics A2

Plane Trigonometry ½ unit Mathematics E or Gamma

Plane Geometry 1 unit Mathematics C

Physics 1 unit Elementary Physics

Chemistry, or Biology, or General Science } } } 1 unit Elementary Chemistry Elementary Biology —

and at least seven entrance units in the following elective subjects:

Academic Subjects

Latin 1, 2, 3 or 4 units Latin 2, 3A, 3B, 4, H, K

German 1, 2, 3 or 4 units German 2, 3 or 4

French 1, 2, 3 or 4 units French 2, 3 or 4

Spanish 1, 2, 3 or 4 units Spanish 2, 3 or 4

Italian 1, 2, 3 or 4 units ——

History 1, 2, 3 or 4 units History A, B, C or D

Adv. Algebra ½ unit Mathematics B

Solid Geometry ½ unit Mathematics D

Economics 1 unit ——

While languages are listed here as electives, applicants are advised that French or German or both are usually required for graduate work.

Commercial and Vocational Subjects[7]

NO C.E.E.B. EQUIVALENTS

Drawing 1 unit

Electricity ½ or 1 unit

Joinery ½ or 1 unit

Bookkeeping— Accounting 1 unit

Business Law ½ unit

Shop ½ or 1 unit

Machine Shop ½ or 1 unit

Pattern Making ½ or 1 unit

Commercial Geography 1 unit

History of Commerce ½ unit

Any other credited High School subject, 1 unit.

A unit, as defined by the College Entrance Examination Board, represents a year’s study in any subject in a secondary school, constituting approximately a quarter of a full year’s work. As a minimum this represents one hundred and twenty sixty-minute hours or their equivalent.

A four-year secondary school curriculum should be regarded as representing not more than sixteen units of work.

The classification for special students is provided in order to make available the privileges of the College to mature men to whom technical instruction in a limited field would be a benefit, but who have neither the need nor the necessary time for a full course of study. Such students are expected to conform to the same standards of attendance and scholarship as are required of matriculated students. Special students may receive a statement of work completed.

Students who wish to transfer from other institutions must present complete credentials including a statement of honorable dismissal to the Registrar. Applications for admission by transfer students will be considered only if the applicant meets all requirements which govern the admission of Freshmen.

A student must satisfy the College of adequate preparation. To do this he may offer either:

(A) Any one of the following examinations covering the subjects required for admission:

1. Those given by the College Entrance Examination Board.[8]

2. The entrance examinations given by the College.

3. The examinations given by the Education Departments of the States of New York and New Jersey to students who have satisfactorily completed the courses in the High Schools;

or

(B) A certificate of graduation from an approved High School showing the time devoted to each subject and the standard attained. Entrance credits will be allowed for those subjects only which are satisfactorily credited on the certificate.

COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION BOARD

Scholarship Examinations and Early Examinations for Admission to Be Held on April 15, 1939

The College Entrance Examination Board will hold examinations at approximately 150 places in the United States on April 15, 1939, for applicants for scholarships and for admission to college. A list of these places will be published about December 15. A detailed announcement regarding the April series of examinations will be ready for distribution on October 1.

Every candidate is required to file an application with the Executive Secretary of the College Entrance Examination Board, 431 West 117 Street, New York, N. Y., not later than March 25, 1939. A candidate who takes the examinations for admission to college should secure a blank form of application for examination from the College Entrance Examination Board; a candidate who takes them in order to qualify for a scholarship must secure the blank form from the college offering the scholarship. In order to facilitate the making of arrangements for the proper conduct of the examinations, it is desired that all applications be filed as early as possible. The examination fee of ten dollars should accompany the application for the scholarship tests[9] and should be remitted by postal order, express order, or draft on New York to the order of the College Entrance Examination Board.

Applications for examination will be accepted after March 25, 1939, when it is possible to arrange for the examination of the candidates concerned, but only upon payment of five dollars in addition to the regular fee.

When a candidate has failed to obtain the required blank form of application, the regular examination fee will be accepted if it arrives not later than March 25, 1939, and if it be accompanied by a memorandum with the name and address of the candidate, the center at which he will report for examination, the college to which his report is to be sent, and the series of examinations (admission or scholarship) he wishes to take.

No candidate will be admitted to a test late, that is, after the test has begun. Each candidate who is registered for the Scholastic Aptitude Test will receive a booklet containing a specimen test with blank spaces to be filled in by the candidate. In order to secure admission to the test, the candidate must present not only his ticket of admission but also this booklet with the spaces filled in as requested.

Inasmuch as no special preparation will be needed for this series of examinations, detailed information regarding them, with the exception of the practice booklet for the Scholastic Aptitude Test, will not be distributed to candidates.

The College Entrance Examination Board will report to the institution indicated on the candidate’s application the results of his examinations. Candidates should not expect to receive from the Board reports upon their examinations.

COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION BOARD

Examinations of June 17-24, 1939

The College Entrance Examination Board will hold examinations in June 1939 at more than three hundred points in this country and abroad. A list of these places will be published about March 1, 1939. Requests that the examinations be held at particular points should be transmitted to the Executive Secretary of the College Entrance Examination Board not later than February 1, 1939.

Detailed definitions of the requirements in all examination subjects are given in a circular of information published annually about December 1. Upon request to the Secretary of the College Entrance Examination Board a single copy of this document will be sent to any teacher without charge. In general, there will be a charge of thirty cents, which may be remitted in postage.

All candidates wishing to take these examinations should make application by mail to the Secretary of the College Entrance Examination Board, 431 West 117th Street, New York, N. Y. Blank forms for this purpose will be mailed by the Secretary of the Board to any teacher or candidate upon request by mail.

The applications and fees of all candidates who wish to take the examinations in June 1939 should reach the Secretary of the Board not later than the dates specified in the following schedule:

For examination centers

In the United States east of the Mississippi River or on the Mississippi May 29, 1939

In the United States west of the Mississippi River or in Canada May 22, 1939

Outside of the United States and Canada, except in Asia May 8, 1939

In China or elsewhere in the Orient April 24, 1939

An application which reaches the Secretary later than the scheduled date will be accepted only upon payment of $5 in addition to the regular examination fee of $10.

When a candidate has failed to obtain the required blank form of application, the regular examination fee will be accepted if the fee arrive not later than the date specified above and if it be accompanied by a memorandum with the name and address of the candidate, the exact examination center selected, and a list of the subjects in which the candidate is to take the Board examinations.

When the examination supplies of the local supervisor permit, candidates who have failed to file an application with the Secretary may be admitted, upon payment to the local supervisor of a fee of five dollars in addition to the regular fee, to all examinations except the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Such candidates should present themselves at the beginning of the period of registration. A candidate who registers with the supervisor will receive from him a blank form of application and an identification card which must be filled out and handed to the supervisor for transmission to the Secretary of the Board.

In order to exhibit their tickets of admission, to present their identification cards, and to obtain seats in the examination room, candidates should report for a morning examination at 8:45 and for an afternoon examination at 1:45. An examination will close for candidates admitted late at the same time as for other candidates. The examinations will be held in accordance with the time (Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time) observed in the local schools.

No candidate will be admitted to the Scholastic Aptitude Test late, that is, after the test has begun.

The Scholastic Aptitude Test may be taken upon the completion of the school course or at the end of the third year of secondary school work. Each candidate desiring to take this test, even though he is to take no other examination, must file with the Secretary of the Board the usual application for examination. Every candidate who registers for the test will receive a practice booklet containing a specimen test with blank spaces to be filled in by the candidate. In order to secure admission to the test, the candidate must present not only his ticket of admission but also this booklet with the spaces filled in as requested. If the Scholastic Aptitude Test is taken in connection with other examinations, no additional fee is required; if taken alone, the fee is $10.