NCAA ELIGIBILITY
REQUIREMENTS
NCAA DIVISION 1 & 2 INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
Student athletes first
entering a collegiate institution in the 2012-13 academic year will have
eligibility for practice and competition in the freshman year when certified by
the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse. (Information about this clearinghouse
has been made available to every high school.) To sign up for initial eligibility, please go to the official NCAA website.
www.eligibilitycenter.org
To be considered a qualifier at a Division I institution
and be eligible for financial aid, practice, and
competition during a student's first year, he/she must
1. Graduate from high school.
2. Division 1 has a sliding scale for test score
and grade-point average. For the sliding
scale on those requirements, refer to the index below:
CORE
GPA SAT ACT (total of four main sub scores)
2.500
and above 820 68
2.475 830 69
2.450 840-850 70
2.425 860 70
2.400 860 71
2.375 870 72
3. Present a
minimum grade point average in at least 16 core courses (credits) in the
following areas:
NCAA will only consider courses that have been taken during high school (9th-12th grades).
·
English – four years
·
Mathematics – three years (Algebra I or higher)
·
Natural or physical science – two years (including one year of lab)
·
Additional course in English, mathematics, or natural or physical
science
·
Social Science – two years
·
Extra core courses from any category above and foreign language – four
years
To
be a qualifier at a Division II institution, a student must
1. Graduate
from high school.
2. Present a
minimum grade point average of 2.0 in at
least 14 core courses in the
same areas noted above.
3. Present a minimum 820-combined score on the SAT verbal and math
section or a minimum sum score of 68 on the ACT. There is no sliding scale in Division II. Please
note: Division II will require 16 core courses beginning August 1, 2013.
The following courses are NCAA approved core
courses:
English
American
Experience
American
Literature
English
Literature/AP
British
Literature
English
Language and Composition/AP
IB
English (HL)
College
English
Creative
Writing
Debate
Debate
/Advanced
English
9 (English 1 - Honors, Regular, and Teamed)
English
10 (English 2 - Honors, Regular, and Teamed)
English 11 (English 3 - Regular and Teamed)
Expository
Writing / Advanced
Humanities
Journalistic Writing
Mythology
Reading
& Writing Workshop
Theatre
1
Theatre
2
Mathematics
Algebra I (PATH and Teamed)
Algebra II (Extended, PATH, Regular, STEM, and Teamed)
Geometry (Teamed, PATH, and Regular)
Discrete Math
Statistics & probability
Statistics in Sports
Trigonometry
Adv. Math Pre-Calculus (PATH and Regular)
IB
Math (SL)
IB
Math Studies (SL)
IB Business Management (SL)
AP Calculus AB/BC
AP Statistics
Social
Science
U.S. History (AP, Regular, and Teamed)
World
History & Geography (AP, Regular and Teamed)
Government (AP, Regular and Teamed)
Economics (AP, Regular and Teamed)
Ancient
History
Constitutional
Law
European
History / AP
IB
History of the Americas
(HL)
IB Theory of Knowledge
Perspectives
/ World Cultures
Cultural & Global Issues
Intro to Law
Psychology (AP and Regular)
World
Issues
Natural/Physical
Science
Biology (AP, IB, Regular, and Teamed)
Chemistry (Acc., AP, IB, Regular, and Teamed)
Physics (AP, Conceptual, IB, Regular, and Teamed)
Anatomy & Physiology I & II (Blended, Regular, LGI)
Astronomy
Environmental Science (AP and IB)
Botany
Geology
Zoology
Foreign
Language
French
1, 2, 3, 4, AP, IB
German
1, 2, 3, 4, IB
Spanish
1, 2, 3, 4, AP, IB
Spanish Immersion 1 & 2