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NCAA Division 2 Standards
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All student-athletes must register with the NCAA Initial Eligibility Clearinghouse. Qualifier can practice, compete and receive athletics scholarship as a freshman.

Requirements:

  • Graduate from high school;

  • Have a GPA of 2.000 in 13 core academic courses; and must achieve a 68 (sum of scores on the four individual test) on the ACT, or an 820 on the SAT if taken April 1, 1995, or later. Those entering in the Fall of 1997 must achieve a 68 on the ACT.

  • Can convert and combine subscores from an SAT taken before April 1, 1995 and an SAT taken April 1, 1995, or later to achieve the standard.

  • The highest scores achieved on the verbal and mathematics section of the SAT or highest scores achieved on the four individual tests of the ACT may be combined to achieve the highest scores.

High School Core Courses:

  • At least 3 years English;

  • At least 2 years math;

  • At least 2 years social science;

  • At least 2 years natural or physical science (including 1 lab course, if offered by any high school you attended);

  • At least 2 years additional courses in English, math, or natural or physical science and;

  • 2 additional academic courses in any of the above areas, or foreign language, computer science, philosophy or comparative religion.

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