Your state's rules. The NCAA's rules. Both clocks.
State association rules decide if you play this season; NCAA rules decide if you play in college. Pick your state for both sides of the picture.
Your state association
Weekly and semester grade checks that decide whether you suit up for your high school right now.
Set by your association · often district by district
The NCAA line
Core-course GPA from your best 16 approved classes, on a clock that starts the first day of 9th grade.
16 core courses · core GPA · no SAT/ACT requirement
All 50 state guides
9 publish a standard specific enough to quoteEvery guide names the association and what it governs. Where the statewide academic standard isn't published in quotable form, the guide says so and points you at the person who has the current handbook.
Where to go next
Eligibility Center
The national standard in one place: the 16 core courses, the GPA lines, and the grade-by-grade timeline.
16 core courses · 4 grade levels
Requirements by division
What D1, D2, D3 and the NAIA each ask of a recruit, written out separately instead of averaged together.
4 division guides
College profiles
Federal admissions data for each school next to the eligibility bar its division sets on a recruit.
237 programs · 48 HBCUs
Questions & answers
The questions families actually type into Google, answered on the rules that are in force today.
75 answers