NCAA Eligibility for Part Time Students

12 credits the previous semester and whatever it takes to graduate.

The Dad wrote:

My daughter is a D1 athlete and might be part time next semester, and I'm curious if anyone know if she needs to take a full time load to be eligible to compete. The specifics are that she's a junior and she's a fair amount ahead in getting the number of credits she needs to graduate. Her senior year will be a clinical year and the courses she's taking are all set. She only needs 10 credit hours next semester to finish the rest of the requirements for her major and two minors. We've gotten conflicting opinions about whether she needs to take an extra class to get to full time in order to be eligible to do her sport. She's taking 15 hours right now if that makes a difference. Anyone know the rule on this?

Point blank: She won't be eligible unless she is a full time student. I was in the same boat spring semester jr year and took an easy fine arts class to get me to 12 credit hours (NCAA minimum).

The only semester you can be less than full time (12 hrs) is your final semester when graduating

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The only semester you can be less than full time (12 hrs) is your final semester when graduating

This is true... also probably a better conversation for her and her coach/compliance office as opposed to a bunch of randos on let’s run.

fo sho wrote:

......................... wrote:

The only semester you can be less than full time (12 hrs) is your final semester when graduating

This is true... also probably a better conversation for her and her coach/compliance office as opposed to a bunch of randos on let’s run.

Thanks, rando. Disagree with you about the best place to get the info. She's getting mixed statements from her side and I think it's because the athletic department is financially crunched. I knew I'd get the actual truth here.

The Dad wrote:

fo sho wrote:

This is true... also probably a better conversation for her and her coach/compliance office as opposed to a bunch of randos on let’s run.

Thanks, rando. Disagree with you about the best place to get the info. She's getting mixed statements from her side and I think it's because the athletic department is financially crunched. I knew I'd get the actual truth here.

So if you go with the answer from here and she is declared ineligible is your defense going to be "someone on an internet message board said it was okay"?

Luv2Run wrote:

So if you go with the answer from here and she is declared ineligible is your defense going to be "someone on an internet message board said it was okay"?

This isn't a court case so I don't need a 'defense' as such. Moreover, the advice here was to make sure she's full time, and I know she'll be eligible is she does. The only question was whether she MIGHT be eligible if she takes less, which is what some in the athletic department at her school were telling her. I'm now sure that's crap.

D2 Dad of D1 Girl wrote:

Luv2Run wrote:

So if you go with the answer from here and she is declared ineligible is your defense going to be "someone on an internet message board said it was okay"?

This isn't a court case so I don't need a 'defense' as such. Moreover, the advice here was to make sure she's full time, and I know she'll be eligible is she does. The only question was whether she MIGHT be eligible if she takes less, which is what some in the athletic department at her school were telling her. I'm now sure that's crap.

Bro you are so defensive But she may be cooler than you so still down to help... she does not need to be full time if she is in her last semester and completing her remaining units for graduation. If she transitions to grad school she will then need to take 9 units to be full time not 12.

fo sho wrote:

Bro you are so defensive But she may be cooler than you so still down to help... she does not need to be full time if she is in her last semester and completing her remaining units for graduation. If she transitions to grad school she will then need to take 9 units to be full time not 12.

She's not in her last semester.