NCAA

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a member-led organization dedicated to the well-being and lifelong success of college athletes.

Register with the NCAA Eligibility Center

Get Ready. Get Set. Go!

Grade 9

• Ask your counselor for a list of your high school’s NCAA core courses to make sure you take the right classes.

Grade 10

• Register with the NCAA Eligibility Center at eligibilitycenter.org.

Grade 11

• Check with your counselor to make sure you will graduate on time with the required number of NCAA core courses.

• Take the ACT or SAT and submit your scores to the NCAA using code 9999.

• At the end of the year, ask your counselor to upload your official transcript to the NCAA Eligibility Center.

Grade 12

• Finish your last NCAA core courses.

• Take the ACT or SAT again, if necessary, and submit your scores to the NCAA using code 9999.

• Complete all academic and amateurism questions in your NCAA Eligibility Center account at eligibilitycenter.org.

• After you graduate, ask your counselor to submit your final official transcript with proof of graduation to the NCAA Eligibility Center.

Division I Academic Eligibility

To be eligible to compete in NCAA sports during your first year at a Division I school, you must graduate high school and meet ALL the following requirements:

• Complete 16 core courses:

  • Four years of English

  • Three years of math (Algebra 1 or higher)

  • Two years of natural/physical science (including one year of lab science if your high school offers it)

  • One additional year of English, math or natural/physical science

  • Two years of social science

  • Four additional years of English, math, natural/physical science, social science, foreign language, comparative religion or philosophy

• Complete 10 core courses, including seven in English, math or natural/physical science, before your seventh semester. Once you begin your seventh semester, you may not repeat or replace any of those 10 courses to improve your core-course GPA.

• Earn at least a 2.3 GPA in your core courses.

• Earn an SAT combined score or ACT sum score matching your core-course GPA on the Division I sliding scale, which balances your test score and core-course GPA. If you have a low test score, you need a higher core-course GPA to be eligible. If you have a low core-course GPA, you need a higher test score to be eligible.

For more details about the Eligibility Center’s response to COVID-19, click here.

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