NCAA core courses: how yours count
Enter each course, the grade you took it in and your mark, and see how they fall against Division I and II, filled with your best grades first, the Eligibility Center's own rule. Only courses you mark as on your school's NCAA-approved list count. What you type is kept in this browser only, and sent nowhere but to be counted.
Core courses: common questions
Sixteen NCAA-approved core courses, with a core-course GPA of at least 2.3, and ten of them, seven in English, math or science, finished before senior year. Source: NCAA, Division I Initial Eligibility Requirements.
Core-course GPA is on a 4.000 scale (A 4, B 3, C 2, D 1); plus and minus are not used; a semester is half a unit, a trimester .34 and a quarter .25; a pass takes the school's lowest passing grade; only the best grades count toward the required courses. Source: NCAA Eligibility Center, How is Core-Course GPA Calculated?.
Not always. It is worked out only from courses on your high school's list of NCAA-approved core courses, so it can differ from the GPA on your transcript.
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