Executive Order 10562—Amending the Selective Service Regulations

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act (62 Stat. 604), as amended, I hereby prescribe the following amendments of the Selective Service Regulations prescribed by Executive Order No. 10292 of September 25, 1951, and constituting a portion of Chapter XVI of Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

1. Subparagraphs (3) and (4) of paragraph (b) of § 1622.25 of Part 1622, Classification Rules and Principles, are amended to read as follows:

(3) (1) The registrant has been accepted after July 1, 1951, for admission by a graduate school to a class commencing before January 1, 1955, and which is the first such class commencing after the date of his acceptance, for a full-time course of instruction as a candidate for a graduate degree and, if such class has commenced, has entered upon such course before January 1, 1955, and (ii) the registrant in his last full-time undergraduate academic year at a college, university, or similar institution of learning achieved a scholastic standing on that year's work which ranked him for that year within the upper one-half of the full-time male students in his class or has attained a score of 75 or more on the qualification test prescribed by the Director of Selective Service pursuant to paragraph (c) of this section, and (iii) the graduate school at which the registrant is in attendance has certified that he currently is meeting degree requirements and is expected to attain his degree.

(4) (i) The registrant has been accepted after July 1, 1951, for admission by a professional school of medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, osteopathy, optometry, pharmacy, chiropractic, or chiropody to the first class commencing after the date he completed the requirements for admission and, if such class has commenced, has entered such school, and (ii) the registrant in his last full-time academic year at a college, university, or similar institution of learning prior to his entrance into such professional school achieved a scholastic standing on that year's work which ranked him for that year within the upper one-half of the full-time male students in his class or has attained a score of 70 or more on the qualification test referred to in subparagraph (3) of this paragraph, and (iii) the school at which the registrant is in attendance has certified that he is satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of instruction leading to his graduation.

2. Paragraph (b) of § 1622.25 of Part 1622 is further amended by redesignating subparagraphs (5), (6), (7), and (8) as subparagraphs (6), (7), (8), and (9), respectively, and by adding a new subparagraph (5) reading as follows:

(5) (1) The registrant has been accepted for admission by a graduate school to a class commencing on or after January 1, 1955, and which is the first such class commencing after the date he has completed the requirements for admission, for a full-time course of instruction as a candidate for a graduate degree and, if such class has commenced, has entered upon such course, and (ii) the registrant in his last full-time undergraduate academic year at a college, university, or similar institution of learning achieved a scholastic standing on that year's work which ranked him for that year within the upper one-fourth of the full-time male students in his class or has attained a score of 80 or more on the qualification test referred to in sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph, and (iii) the graduate school at which the registrant is in attendance has certified that he currently is meeting degree requirements and is expected to attain his degree.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

September 20, 1954.