Academics

Academics

According to the NCAA Guide for the college-bound student-athlete:

Division I Academic Eligibility Requirements

Graduate from high school.
Successfully complete a core curriculum of at least 13 academic courses as follows:
English.....4 years
Mathematics (two years of math courses at the level of Algebra 1 or above).....2 years
Natural or physical science (including at least one laboratory course, if offered by your high school).....2 years
Additional courses in English, mathematics, or natural or physical science.....1 years
Social Science.....2 years
Additional academic courses [in any of the above areas or foreign language, computer science, philosophy or nondoctrinal religion (e.g., comparative religion0 courses].....2 years
Have a core-course grade-point (based on a maximum of 4.000) and a combined score on the SAT verbal and math sections or a sum score on the ACT based on the qualifier index scale (see below in the top blue box).

Division I Academic Eligibility Requirements for a "partial qualifier"

A "partial qualifier" is eligible to practice with a team at its home facility and receive an athletics scholarship during his or her first year at a Division I school and then has three season of competition remaining.

A partial qualifier may earn a fourth year of competition, provided that at the beginning of the fifth academic year following the student-athlete's initial, full-time collegiate enrollment, the student-athlete has received a baccalaureate degree.

In order to be classified a "partial qualifier," you have not met the requirements for a qualifier but you're required to:

Graduate from high school.
Successfully complete a core curriculum of at least 13 academic courses in the appropriate core areas.
Present a core-course grade-point average (based on a maximum of 4.000) and a combined score on the SAT verbal and math sections or a sum score on the ACT based on the partial qualifier index scale (see below in the bottom blue box).

ACT FAQ

**Division I Qualifier Index**
Core GPA	ACT-Sum of scores (average of four scores in parenthesis)	SAT
2.500 & above	68 (17)	820
2.475	69 (17.25)	830
2.450	70 (17.5)	840-850
2.425	70 (17.5)	860
2.400	71 (17.75)	860
2.375	72 (18)	870
2.350	73 (18.25)	880
2.325	74 (18.5)	890
2.300	75 (18.75)	900
2.275	76 (19)	910
2.250	77 (19.25)	920
2.225	78 (19.5)	930
2.200	79 (19.75)	940
2.175	80 (20)	950
2.150	80 (20)	960
2.125	81 (20.25)	960
2.100	82 (20.5)	970
2.075	83 (2.75)	980
2.050	84 (21)	990
2.025	85 (21.25)	1000
2.000	86 (21.5)	1010

**Partial Qualifier Index**
Core GPA	ACT-Sum of scores (average of four scores in parenthesis)	SAT
2.750 & above	59 (14.75)	720
2.725	59 (14.75)	730
2.700	60 (15)	730
2.675	61 (15.25)	740-750
2.650	62 (15.5)	760
2.625	63 (15.75)	770
2.600	64 (16)	780
2.575	65 (16.25)	790
2.550	66 (16.5)	800
2.525	67 (16.75)	810

*Previously, ACT score was calculated by averaging four scores. New standards are based on sum of scores.