NCAA Requirements
Planning to play College Sports?
by Sue Shoemaker
NCAA INFORMATION
If you are planning to play sports in college you must meet certain academic requirements to be considered for a college team. The NCAA is very strict and has set the following guidelines for students wanting to play college sports. The requirements vary depending upon whether you want to play Division 1 or Divisiion II sports.
Division I
You must be a high school graduate and you must complete these 16 core courses:
4 years of English
3 years of Math
2 years of natural or physical science (including one year of lab science)
1 extra year of English, math or natural or physical science
2 years of social science
4 years of extra core courses (from any category above, or foreign language, non-doctrinal religion or philosophy)
Earn a SAT score or ACT sum score that matches your core course grade-point average and test score sliding scale score that matches the scale below:
CORE GPA SAT ACT CORE GPA SAT ACT
- 550 400 37 2.950 640 53
- 525 410 38 2.925 650 53
- 500 420 30 2.900 660 54
- 475 430 40 2.875 670 55
- 450 440 41 2.850 680 56
- 425 450 41 2.825 690 56
- 400 460 42 2.800 700 57
- 375 470 42 2.775 710 58
- 350 480 43 2.750 720 59
- 325 490 44 2.725 730 59
- 300 500 44 2.700 730 60
- 275 510 45 2.675 740-750 61
- 250 520 46 2.650 760 62
- 225 530 46 2.625 770 63
- 200 540 47 2.600 780 64
- 175 550 47 2.575 790 65
- 150 560 48 2.550 800 66
- 125 570 49 2.525 810 67
- 100 580 49 2.500 820 68
- 075 590 50 2.475 830 69
- 050 600 50 2.450 840-850 70
- 025 610 51 2.425 860 70
- 000 620 52 2.400 860 71
- 975 630 52 2.375 870 72
- 350 880 73 2.150 960 80
- 325 890 74 2.125 960 81
- 300 900 75 2.100 970 82
- 275 910 76 2.075 980 83
- 250 920 77 2.050 999 84
- 200 930 78 2.025 1000 85
- 175 940 79 2.000 1010 86
- 150 950 80
Division II
If you enroll in a Division II college and want to participate in athletics or receive an athletic scholarship you must:
Graduate from High School and complete the following 14 core courses:
3 years of English
2 years of math (algebra 1 or higher)
2 years of natural or physical science (including one year of lab science)
2 extra years of English, math or natural or physical science
2 years of social science
3 years of extra core courses (from any category above, or foreign language, non-doctrinal, religion or philosophy)
Earn a 2.000 grade-point average or better in your core courses
And
Earn a combined SAT score of 820 or and ACT sum score of 68. There is no sliding scale in Division II.
List of Approved Core Courses CGHS
High School Information
School Code: 170690
School Name: COUNCIL GROVE HIGH SCHOOL
Address: 129 HOCKADAY
City, State: COUNCIL GROVE, KS 66846
Instructions
The NCAA has approved the following courses for use in establishing the initial-eligibility certification status of student-athletes from this school. Some course titles may begin with one of the following prefixes. These prefixes are defined as follows:
= Only students who have received proper NCAA approval for their diagnosed learning disability may receive credit for these approved courses.
! A student will receive no more than one NCAA mathematics credit for the successful completion of any two courses so noted.
!! A student will receive NCAA mathematics credit according to the unique credit values noted.
> A student will receive no more than one unit of NCAA natural/physical science credit for the successful completion of all courses so noted.
>> A student will receive no more than one and one-half units of NCAA natural/physical science credit for the successful completion of all courses so noted.
>>> A student will receive no more than two units of NCAA natural/physical science credit for the successful completion of all courses so noted.
Courses designated with a '=' symbol are courses that may be used only by students with a diagnosed disability. Please note, not all high schools will have courses with this designation. Also, in order for a student to receive credit for a course designed for students with disabilities, the student must have provided verification of his or her disability status by presenting to the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse either: (1) a nonstandard ACT or SAT score; or (2) notice of disability designation by the NCAA Disability Services staff.
NCAA legislation permits a student to receive credit for a core course only one time. As a result, if a student repeats a core course, the student will only receive credit once for the core course, and the highest grade earned in the course will be included in the calculation of the student's core course grade point average. Likewise, if a student completes a course that is duplicative in content with another core course, the student will only receive credit for one of the duplicative courses, and the course with the highest grade earned will be included in the calculation of the student's core course grade point average.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The NCAA has adopted a new standard for initial-eligibility. Click here to read about the changes. Computer science courses cannot be used to fulfill core course requirements for student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution on or after August 1, 2005.
High School Course Information
English Title
AMERICAN STUDIES (ENGLISH 3)
COLLEGE ENGLISH I
COLLEGE ENGLISH II
ENGLISH I
ENGLISH II
ENGLISH III
ENGLISH IV
SPEECH
Social Science Title
AMERICAN STUDIES (HISTORY)
ECONOMICS
GOVERNMENT
PSYCHOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY
US HISTORY
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
WORLD HISTORY
Mathematics Title
ALGEBRA I
ALGEBRA II
CALCULUS
COLLEGE ALGEBRA
CORE MATH I
CORE MATH II
CORE MATH III
GEOMETRY
PRE CALCULUS
TRIGONOMETRY
Natural/Physical Science Title Lab
ANATOMY X
BIOLOGY X
CHEMISTRY X
EARTH SCIENCE
PHYSICS X
Foreign Language
SPANISH I
SPANISH II
IMPORTANT NOTE: Computer science courses cannot be used to fulfill core course requirements for student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution on or after August 1, 2005.
Registering with the Eligibility Center
Prospective student-athletes may register with the Eligibility Center via the Internet at the beginning of their junior year in high school. Web site is www.ncaa.org. When you arrive at the site there is a link for the Eligibility Center.
As part of the amateurism certification process, each prospective student-athlete will be asked to answer several questions regarding his or her sports-participation history. Early registration with the Eligibility Center and the completion of the athletics participation questions will allow institutions to have preliminary information regarding a prospective student-athlete's amateurism status, which will promote consistency in the recruiting process. Final certifications of amateur status will occur at the end of the prospective student-athlete's senior year of high school or approximately two to three months prior to initial full-time enrollment at an NCAA Division I or II institution.
