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SCHOLASTIC GRADING AND REQUIREMENTS 103
ment to continue with senior courses in the electrical engineering
option. Such disbarment, however, does not prevent the student from
continuing in some other department provided permission is obtained,
or from repeating courses to raise his average in his original option.
Freedom from scholastic restrictions. After a student has completed
at least three full terms of residence at the Institute and has
been registered for his junior year, he shall no longer be subject to
the scholastic regulation requiring that he make at least 270 credits
during the school year, except that a student who is reinstated to
enter the junior or senior year is subject to this requirement during his
junior or senior year.
All undergraduate and fifth- and sixth-year Master's candidates are
subject to the requirement that they must receive at least 54 credits
each term to be eligible for subsequent registration. (Special note
should be made of the graduation requirement in the following
paragraph. )
Graduation requirement. To qualify for graduation a student must
complete the prescribed work in some one option of the course in
engineering or of the course in science with an average grade of 1.9.
Residence requirement. All transfer students who are candidates
for the Bachelor of Science degree must complete at least one full
year of residence in the undergraduate school at the Institute immediately
preceding the completion of the requirements for graduation.
At least ninety of the units taken must be in subjects in professional
courses. A full year of residence is interpreted as meaning the equivalent
of registration for three terms of not less than 49 units each.
Honor standing. At the close of each school-year the Committee
on Honor Students awards honor standing to approximately fifteen
students who have completed the freshman year, and to ten to
fifteen students who have completed the sophomore year. To each of
these students is also awarded a prize scholarship carrying half tuition.
These awards are based primarily on the scholastic records of
the students. Any holder of such a scholarship who in any subse-