Financial Fatigue: NCAA Offers Scholarships to Student-Athletes Who Have Run Out of Money

Student-Athletes who exhaust their eligibility for financial aid through their college or university can now apply for the NCAA Division I-Degree Completion Award Program.

The program provides full-time students grants equal to a full athletic scholarship at their college or university. Part-time students may receive tuition and an allowance for books.

To qualify, student-athletes must have completed the eligibility requirements for athletics-related aid at a Division I school before applying, and must be within 30 semester hours of earning their degree.

Eligibility requirements are as follows:
Graduate from high school;
•Complete the 14 core courses listed below;
•Present a minimum required grade-point average in your
core courses; and
•Achieve a combined SAT or ACT sum score that matches
your core-course grade-point average in the grade point
average and test score index on page 7.
14 Required Core Courses
• Four years of English;
• Two years of mathematics (algebra I or higher level);
• Two years of natural or physical science (including one year
of lab science if offered by your high school);
• One extra year of English, mathematics or natural/physical
science;
• Two years of social science; and
• Three years of extra core courses (from any category above,
or foreign language, nondoctrinal religion or philosophy).

NOTE: Computer science courses can be used only if your high school
grants graduation credit in mathematics or natural/physical science and
the courses appear on your high-school’s core-course list as a math
or science course.


Applications for the Winter/Spring/Summer 2007 season are now available.