NCAA Eligibility Center Amateurism Certification Updates

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NCAA Eligibility Center/Amateurism
Certification Updates

• BAHS GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT
• Created by Mark Sherburne A.A.D for S-A.S _at_ PSU

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• What is the NCAA Eligibility Center?
• The NCAA-run clearinghouse which certifies
  students who wish to participate in Division I or
  II college athletics during their initial year of
  college enrollment. Prospective students must
  register with the Eligibility Center and be
  certified in order to practice, compete and/or
  receive athletic aid in that first year.

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• Clearinghouse Registration
• To register with the clearinghouse, a student
  must complete and sign the
• Student Release Form (SRF) and send it to the
  clearinghouse along with the registration fee
  (50 domestic students, 75 -international
  students).
• The SRF does two things
• 1. It authorizes each high school that a student
  has attended to send the clearinghouse a
  transcript, proof of graduation and other
• necessary academic information.
• 2. It authorizes the clearinghouse to send a
  students initial eligibility evaluations
  (preliminary final) to all colleges that
  request the information.
• The preferred method is to register online. A
  prospect can go online to www.ncaaclearinghouse.ne
  t. This method requires credit or debit card
  information to pay the registration fee.

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When should I Register?

• Any time during the junior year
• If you know you are going to be pursuing Division
  I or Division II programs, the earlier the better
• When questionnaires are sent out, you can respond
  that you are registered for the clearinghouse

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4 Years of Planning

• If you have aspirations of competing at the
  Division I or II level, there are things you can
  be planning as a Freshman or Sophomore.
• Your grades in these 9th and 10th grade courses
  carry as much weight as your 11th and 12th grade
  courses.
• This is true not only for eligibility purposes,
  but for college admission as well.

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Academic Requirements

• Division I 16 core course credits and
  associated SAT/ACT score (see sliding scale)
• Division II 14 core course credits with minimum
  GPA of 2.00 and minimum 820 combined SAT (math
  and reading) or 68 ACT sum score (all sections)
  (This will be raised to 16 core course credits in
  2013)

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Academic-Eligibility Requirements Divison I

• Graduate from high school
• Complete these 16 core courses
• - 4 years of English
• - 3 years of math (algebra 1 or higher)
• - 2 years of natural or physical science
  (including one year of lab if offered by the
  high school)
• - 1extra 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,
• nondoctrinal religion or philosophy) and
• Have a core-course grade point average and a
  combined SAT or ACT sum score that satisfies the
  NCAA sliding scale.

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Academic-Eligibility Requirements Division II

• Graduate from high school
• Complete these 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 if offered by the high
  school)
• - 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, nondoctrinal
  religion or philosophy) and
• Have a minimum core-course grade point average
  of 2.00 and a combined SAT of 820 or ACT sum
  score of 68

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Special Core Course Considerations for BAHS

• CPI and NCAA eligibility
• Acceptable Math Courses
• Algebra A and Algebra B each count as .5 credit
  for eligibility center purposes.
• Accounting 1, while acceptable for graduation
  requirements, can not be used as a core-course
  credit

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Bellefonte High School Core Courses

• Go to www.ncaaclearinghouse.net
• Click on Perspective Student Athletes
• Click on List of Approved Core Courses on left
  hand margin
• Use school code 390225
• Most of the new Social Studies mini courses have
  been accepted, we are still trying to get a
  handful approved. Please check to make sure that
  your course is an approved course

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SAT/ACT scores

• Must be sent directly to the NCAA Eligibility
  Center
• Use code 9999
• Students can take the SAT/ACT more than once and
  their best subscore from each administration will
  be used for Eligibility Center calculations

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Division I Core GPA Test Score Sliding
Scale Core GPA SAT ACT Core GPA SAT ACT 3.550
above 400 37 2.775 710 58 3.525 410 38 2.750
720 59 3.500 420 39 2.725 730 59 3.475 430 4
0 2.700 730 60 3.450 440 41 2.675
740-750 61 3.425 450 41 2.650 760 62 3.40
0 460 42 2.625 770 63 3.375 470 42 2.600 780
64 3.350 480 43 2.575 790 65 3.325 490 44 2
.550 800 66 3.300 500 44 2.525 810 67 3.275 5
10 45 2.500 820 68 3.250 520 46 2.475 830 69
3.225 530 46 2.450
840-850 70 3.200 540 47 2.425 860 70 3.175 550
47 2.400 860 71 3.150 560 48 2.375 870 72 3.
125 570 49 2.350 880 73 3.100 580 49 2.325 8
90 74 3.075 590 50 2.300 900 75 3.050 600 50
2.275 910 76 3.025 610 51 2.250 920 77 3.000
620 52 2.225 930 78 2.975 630 52 2.200 940 79
2.950 640 53 2.175 950 80 2.925 650 53 2.150
960 80 2.900 660 54 2.125 960 81 2.875 670
55 2.100 970 82 2.850 680 56 2.075 980 83 2.8
25 690 56 2.050 990 84 2.800 700 57 2.025 10
00 85 2.000 1010 86
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• Qualifiers -
• Can practice, compete and receive an
• athletics scholarship during the first year
• of college enrollment AND
• Can play four seasons in a sport as long
• as academic eligibility is maintained from
• year to year.
• Non-Qualifiers -
• Cannot practice, compete or receive an
• athletics scholarship during the first year
• of college enrollment AND
• Can play only three seasons in a sport
• as long as academic eligibility is maintained
• from year to year (to earn a fourth season,

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Partial Qualifiers (Division II only)

• Students who graduate from high school and meet 1
  of the 2 academic requirements (2.00 GPA or 820
  combined SAT)
• Can practice with team at home facility during
  1st year
• Can receive athletic aid 1st year but cannot
  compete
• Can play 4 seasons if academic eligibility is
  maintained

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Division III

• Division III does not utilize the NCAA
  Eligibility Center.
• See the individual school and/or conference
  requirements for eligibility

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• Amateurism Eligibility
• In response to the NCAA membership's concerns
  about amateurism issues, NCAA President, Myles
  Brand, authorized the creation of a centralized
  amateurism certification process.
• The NCAA Amateurism Certification Process is
  used to determine the amateurism eligibility of
  domestic, international freshman and transfer
  prospective student-athletes first enrolling at
  NCAA Divisions I and II member institutions on or
  after August 1, 2007.  
• Prospects complete the amateurism questionnaire
  when they register with the NCAA
  Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse. 
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• As part of the amateurism certification
  process, each prospect is asked to answer several
  questions regarding his or her sports
  participation history.  
• Early registration with the clearinghouse and
  the completion of the athletics participation
  questions, allows institutions to have
  preliminary information regarding a prospect's
  amateurism status.
• Final certifications of amateur status occur at
  the end of the prospective student-athlete's
  senior year of high school (approximately 2-3
  months prior to initial full-time enrollment at
  an NCAA Division I or II institution).

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Eligibility and Admission

• Please note NCAA Eligibility Center
  certification DOES NOT guarantee admission to a
  given college.
• The NCAA Eligibility Center only determines
  whether you are eligible to practice, participate
  and/or receive athletic aid in your first year at
  school.

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Recommended for all Prospects Going into Senior
Year

• Request and confirm that each high school
  attended through the sixth semester (or
  equivalent) of enrollment has mailed to the NCAA
  Clearinghouse an official transcript.
• Request that official SAT and/or ACT scores are
  sent directly to the NCAA Clearinghouse via the
  testing agency (code 9999).

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General Recruiting Regulations Division I

• Sophomore year Coach cannot contact you. You
  can receive brochures for camps and
  questionnaires. You may make unofficial visits
• Junior year Recruiting materials can be
  received September 1 of junior year. You may call
  coach at your expense. College coach may call you
  (varies by sport see Guide for College-Bound
  Student Athlete). Unlimited number of unofficial
  visits

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General Recruiting Div I cont.

• Senior Year
• You may call coach at your expense
• Coach may call you (times vary see guide)
• Official Visits beginning first day of classes
  senior year (maximum of 1 per school and 5 total
  between Div I and II schools)
• Total evaluations and contact (varies between 5-7
  depending on sport see guide)
• Reference Guide for definitions of contact,
  evaluation, dead periods, etc.
• Unofficial visits - unlimited

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Division II and III Recruiting

• See guide for regulations

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NCAA DEFINITIONS

• OFFICIAL (PAID) VISITS
• Any visit to a college campus by a
  student-athlete and their parents paid for by the
  institution. The institution may pay the
  following expenses
• Transportation to and from the institution,
• Room and meals (three per day plus a snack)
  while you
• are visiting the institution, and
• Reasonable entertainment expenses, including
  three
• complimentary admissions to a home athletics
• contest.

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• OFFICIAL (PAID) VISITS (continued)
• Before an institution provides a student-athlete
  with an official visit, the student-athlete will
  need to provide the institution with the
  following
• A copy of the student-athletes high school (or
  college)
• academic transcripts,
• A score from a PSAT, SAT, PLAN, or ACT taken on
  a
• national testing date, and
• The prospective student-athlete must register
  with the
• NCAA Eligibility Center.
• Note Additionally, the prospective
  student-athlete must
• be placed on the institutions IRL
  (institutional request list)
• with the NCAA Eligibility Center.

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• OFFICIAL (PAID) VISITS (continued)
• Important items to remember about official
  visits
• Official visits are not allowed during the
  sophomore and
• junior years,
• Official visits are allowed starting on the
  opening day of
• classes in the senior year,
• Official visits are limited to one per
  institution and five
• overall to Division I and II institutions
  (regardless of the
• number of sports the prospective
  student-athlete is
• involved in), and
• Official visits can not exceed 48 hours in
  length.

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NCAA DEFINITIONS

• UNOFFICIAL (NONPAID) VISITS
• Any visit by a student-athlete and their parents
  to an
• institution paid for by the student-athlete
  and/or their
• parents.
• The only expense a student-athlete may receive
  from the
• college is three complimentary admissions to a
  home
• athletics contest (actual costs must be paid
  for all meals).

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• UNOFFICIAL (NONPAID) VISITS (continued)
• A student-athlete may make as many unofficial
  visits
• as they like, and may take those visits at any
  time
• (during the sophomore, junior, and senior
  years). The
• only time a student-athlete cannot talk with a
  coach during
• an unofficial visit is during a dead period
  (coaches can not
• have any in-person contact with prospective
  student-
• athletes or parents).
• Academic interviews and meetings can be arranged
• by athletic department staff during an
  unofficial visit.

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CLEARINGHOUSE Q A Q Is clearinghouse
certification the same as college admission? A
No. Initial-eligibility certification from the
clearinghouse does not guarantee admission to any
Division I or II college. A student must apply
for college admission separately. The
clearinghouse only determines whether a student
meets the NCAA requirements as a freshman
student-athlete in a Division I or II college to
be able to compete, practice and receive an
athletics scholarship. Q. Can a student send
academic information directly to
the clearinghouse? A. No. Transcripts must come
to the clearinghouse by mail directly from the
high school. Prospects who register with the
clearinghouse provide their high school counselor
a transcript release form so the information can
be mailed. . Note The clearinghouse will not
accept faxed transcripts.
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CLEARINGHOUSE Q A (Continued) Q What if a
student has attended more than one high
school? A If a student has attended multiple
high schools since ninth grade, the clearinghouse
must receive an official transcript from each
school. Official transcripts can come directly
from each school or from the high school from
which the student is graduating.
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CLEARINGHOUSE Q A (Continued) Q How can a
student arrange for the testing agency to send
their scores directly to the clearinghouse? A
When a student registers to take the ACT or the
SAT, they can mark code 9999 so that the
testing agency will send the scores to the
clearinghouse. Q How can a student determine
which courses are core courses? A A student can
view their high schools list of NCAA-approved
core courses (formerly 48H) at www.ncaaclearinghou
se.net or they can ask their high-school
counselor for the list. Q How is the
core-course GPA calculated? A The core-course
GPA is calculated by averaging the best grades
achieved for all required core courses. If extra
core courses have been taken, those courses and
grades are used only if they improve the GPA. Q
May courses taken in eighth grade satisfy core
requirements? A No. Courses taken in eighth
grade will not satisfy core-course requirements.
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CLEARINGHOUSE Q A (Continued) Q Will courses
taken after a students senior year meet
core-course requirements? For Division I - The
NCAA Division I Board of Directors adopted NCAA
Proposal No. 2006-65-A during its April 2007
meeting.  The amended bylaw specifies that a
prospective student-athlete must complete his or
her core-curriculum requirements no later than
the high school graduation date of the
prospective student athlete's class as
determined by the first year of enrollment in
high school (ninth grade).   If the prospective
student-athlete graduates from high school within
the described time-frame, he or she may use one
core course completed in the year after
graduation (summer or academic year), but not
later than the end of the academic year
immediately after the high school graduation date
of the prospective student athlete's class. The
effective date of proposal No. 2006-65-A is
August 1, 2007, for all prospective
student-athletes first entering a collegiate
institution on or after August 1, 2007.   For
Division II, yes. All core courses completed
before full-time enrollment at a Division II
college may be used by the clearinghouse. For
Division I students with diagnosed disabilities,
yes. If you have a properly diagnosed and
documented disability, you may use one or more
core courses completed after high school but
before full-time enrollment in college.