NCAA

If you are an athlete and intend to compete in college, you need to plan carefully beginning in the ninth grade year to ensure that you meet NCAA academic eligibility.

It is extremly important to work closely with your counselor when selecting your courses throughout your high school career to ensure  you take the right classes. 

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Request your transcript via your student Naviance account

Please note that the NCAA will only accept test scores directly from the ACT/SAT

Please note that the NCAA will only accept a copy of your transcript from Chelsea High School via Navaiance ( current student) or Parchment (alumni request)

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Grade 9

• Ask your counselor for a list of your high school’s NCAA core courses to make sure you take the right classes.

Grade 10

• Register with the NCAA Eligibility Center at eligibilitycenter.org - (Chelsea High School Code is 230-610)

Grade 11

• Check with your counselor to make sure you will graduate on time with the required number of NCAA core courses.
• Take the ACT or SAT and submit your scores to the NCAA using code 9999.
• At the end of the year, ask your counselor to upload your official transcript to the NCAA Eligibility Center.

Grade 12

• Finish your last NCAA core courses.
• Take the ACT or SAT again, if necessary, and submit your scores to the NCAA using code 9999.
• Complete all academic and amateurism questions in your NCAA Eligibility Center account at eligibilitycenter.org.
• After you graduate, ask your counselor to submit your final official transcript with proof of graduation to the NCAA Eligibility Center.

If you are an athlete and hope to compete on the college level, you must meet NCAA academic eligibility requirements in addition to CHS graduation requirements.

• Only those courses noted in the Course Offering Book as NCAA Approved may count towards NCAA eligibility core curriculum requirements.
• The only exception to this is if you are a student who is qualified for special education service with an active I.E.P. 
• If you are an athlete and intend to compete in college, you need to plan carefully beginning in the ninth grade year to ensure that you meet NCAA academic eligibility. Detailed information about NCAA eligibility should be obtained from head athletic coaches, the athletic director or counselors. 

NCAA Division I academic eligibility link
 

To be eligible to compete in NCAA sports during your first year at a Division I school, you must graduate high school and meet ALL the following requirements:

• Complete 16 core courses:
• Four years of English
• Three years of math (Algebra 1 or higher)
• Two years of natural/physical science (including one year of lab science if your high school offers it)
• One additional year of English, math or natural/physical science
• Two years of social science
• Four additional years of English, math, natural/physical science, social science, foreign language, comparative religion or philosophy
• Complete 10 core courses, including seven in English, math or natural/physical science, before your seventh semester.
  Once you begin your seventh semester, you may not repeat or replace any of those 10 courses to improve your core-course GPA.
• Earn at least a 2.3 GPA in your core courses.
• Earn an SAT combined score or ACT sum score matching your core-course GPA on the Division I sliding scale, which balances your test score and core-course GPA.
  If you have a low test score, you need a higher core-course GPA to be eligible.
  If you have a low core-course GPA, you need a higher test score to be eligible.
  
  Division I Initial-Eligibility Quick Reference Sheet

NCAA Division II academic eligibility link

To be eligible to compete in NCAA sports during your first year at a Division II school, you must graduate high school and meet ALL the following requirements:

• Complete 16 core courses
• Three years of English.
• Two years of math (Algebra 1 or higher).
• Two years of natural or physical science (including one year of lab science if your high school offers it).
• Three additional years of English, math or natural or physical science
• Two years of social science
• Four additional years of English, math, natural or physical science, social science, foreign language, comparative religion or philosophy
• Earn at least a 2.2 GPA in your core courses.
• Earn an SAT combined score or ACT sum score matching your core-course GPA on the Division II sliding scale, which balances your test score and core-course GPA.
  If you have a low test score, you need a higher core-course GPA to be eligible.
  If you have a low core-course GPA, you need a higher test score to be eligible.

Division II Initial-Eligibility Quick Reference Sheet