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By Shoshana Burrus
Arizona Daily Wildcat
August 22, 1996
OK, you filled out your applications. You sent them in. You were accepted at the university of your choice, and you enrolled.For the student-athlete, it's not quite that simple. In fact, the specific rules for qualification for participation take up approximately seven pages in the NCAA Manual.
Bill Morgan, the University of Arizona athletic department's Associate Director of Administrative Services and Compliance, said that the NCAA rules for academic requirements for incoming freshman-athletes are indeed complicated.
In a nutshell, the requirements are based on a sliding index or scale, which includes Scholastic Aptitude Test scores and overall grade point average. If a student athlete had a GPA of 2.5 or above, the SAT score must be a minimum of 820. From there, the lower the GPA, the higher the test scores are required to be. If a student athlete has a GPA of 2.0 in high school, he or she must acheive a minimum score of 1010 on the SATs.
Freshman athletes must have completed a total of 13 core units in high school. The requirements include four years of English; three years of math; two years of a science, one of which must be a lab; one year of a social science or other English course, and two years of other social science courses like American history and government; and one year of any elective area, such as a foreign language.
All the athlete's information is then sent to the NCAA Clearinghouse. From there, the athlete is processed and is either approved or disapproved for NCAA competition. Until the athlete has gone through, the athlete is unable to work out with his or her team.
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