DHHS Core Courses

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NCAA Eligibility Process

​Grade 9

• Know and sign up for required NCAA core courses.  To see a list of Desert Hills High School approved courses enter our High School CEEB/ACT code 450359 after click the DHHS Core Courses Link about.

Grade 10

• Register with the NCAA Eligibility Center at eligibilitycenter.org.

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.

Am I NCAA Eligible?

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:
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• Complete 16 core courses:
  • Four years of English
  • Three years of Math 
  • Two years of natural/physical science-including one year of lab 
  • 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.

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• 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.