? about NCAA DI core classes

You can search for the specific classes at your school and it will tell you exactly which classes they will accept.

https://web1.ncaa.org/hsportal/exec/hsAction

Don't most states require gov as a graduation requirement anyway?

A good source of info is also the NCAA compliance person at your HS, and / or a compliance person at your local state U.

I think every HS student should take Gov and Econ so your son made a good choice with the Econ.

Every aspiring athlete should use the link Rockford Baseball Mom provided and check if the courses at his high school are accepted as core courses by the NCAA. Each high school is supposed to submit their list of core courses to the NCAA. Some schools don't keep the list up to date, and if the course title on the transcript doesn't match the list the NCAA has, the player may be deemed a non-qualifier.

Don't take this for granted.

A course called Economics should be acceptable to the NCAA for the Social Science category. If it isn't, most probably the high school has neglected to submit the course to the NCAA. As a parent you should push the HS to submit the course. Make sure it happens before the student graduates, because the NCAA tends to not accept retroactive certification.

If the NCAA won't accept an Economics course offered by a particular high school, then the curriculum probably is deficient, and needs fixing.

What a great link, Rockford Baseball Mom. You rock! ;-) The good news is, the econ class qualifies. The bad news is, thanks to that handy "declined classes" button, I found out that none of his other electives do -- not business principles, not the computer courses he's taken. I already figured the religion classes wouldn't count for anything... but I am at a loss at how the NCAA can say a business principles class isn't academically rigorous enough to be considered a high school course. They don't teach this stuff in middle school, after all.

I am surprised that government isn't a required course... it was when I went to high school. The irony is, my son goes to school in Washington, D.C. ...

Thanks again!

3F, you are so correct. We found out the hard way about classes, by not checking ourselves. It is straighted out now, but it wasn't easy.
We found out after submitting 1B's transcript to a college before an official visit. The coach could not make an offer because of the classes that were not approved. He still has 2 half courses in sciences for the last part of his senior year to pass before he has 16 core classes. What a nightmare!
Oh, Economics is not approved at our high school.

take it another step further make sure that the high school classes --- meet the admission requirements of the colleges your son is interested in----the requirements are not always the same

ROCKFORD BASEBALL MOM,
THANKS so much - That was so much easier and so- so necessary. My son was thinking of taking an online class during the summer- we were concerned that the NCAA may not accept it even though the high school has already authorized it. Below is an example of just how easy it is to happen even when it shouldnt.

http://bleacherreport.com/arti...who-failed-alfy-hill

Although son is a HS Freshman, I get the sense that travel teams are starting way too late to inform parents of the NCAA academic requirements. Last fall we attended two different travel organizations College/Pro seminars. Very few freshmen or sophomores were in attendance. The crazy part is that in Ontario, students gain university entrance through their Grade 12 marks. If you wait until Junior year to find out that the NCAA is looking at credits through all four years, you are already halfway through and probably looking at a few wish-I'd-known courses back behind you.

Already, we've capitaized on our knowledge about NCAA courses. Last term, my son was heading into exams with an average 3% below what was necessary to achieve a 4.0 in Science. Over the course of a week, we spent 26 hours to get over that 3% which he did. Knowing how our school sets its exam schedule (based on his daily timetable) has also helped with setting his courses for next year. We've split his NCAA courses into two per term. Further, we've put them on the ends of his schedule, knowing it will maximize the study days between the exams which will really count. We've also put Math and English in the first term, knowing that he will probably write a PSAT at that time.

With his winter program and summer team being an hour from home, we've also found a couple of other things that make things more efficient. He has a notebook with WORD on it, which makes english assignments easier to work with. He can also use this in the car as he's travelling back and forth. When his English teacher assigns novels that are independent selection, I encourage him to choose something that is available on Books-on-CD. With six hours of travel time a week, it's amazing how fast you can plough through a novel. He has become quite aept at moving between the CD and the actual book.

The only problem I see with all this is that he really only focusses on four of his eight credits a year. For example, when he was pushing for that Science exam, he really barely touched Business, which he had good marks in. He managed to preserve a 4.0 on 2 hours study but, he could'nt have cared less and neither could I. In essence, he's steaming through High School getting good marks but, really only focussed on half his credits.

Although many do not counsel to start early with the baseball on this site, make sure you do with the academics!

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Originally posted by HONESTDISAGREEMENT:
ROCKFORD BASEBALL MOM,
THANKS so much - That was so much easier and so- so necessary. My son was thinking of taking an online class during the summer- we were concerned that the NCAA may not accept it even though the high school has already authorized it. Below is an example of just how easy it is to happen even when it shouldnt.

http://bleacherreport.com/arti...who-failed-alfy-hill

So glad it was helpful! I really liked the link, too, but I'm kind of amazed at how high schools can not be diligent in keeping their information updated, and that more coaches/ADs, etc., aren't directing their players to check it out!

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Every aspiring athlete should use the link Rockford Baseball Mom provided and check if the courses at his high school are accepted as core courses by the NCAA. Each

That is very good advice.

In fact, every aspiring athlete, every parent and all the coaches and guidance folks should print out and post the list of classes that are DENIED by the NCAA. This makes it crystal clear that if a student opts for an elective that sounds interesting but that doesn't qualify (such as "Journalism" or "Film as lit" ) that he / she had better not need it for eligibility. Also, as is the case in my HS, sometimes course numbering changes / name changes can render a course ineligble and that change might not be noticed at all until it is too late.

Thanks Rockford mom.