Ad Disclosure
Report: NCAA to provide incoming student-athletes with SAT/ACT waiver due to COVID-19
Published:
The NCAA is planning to ease some of the academic requirements for incoming student-athletes who are expected to graduate in the spring or summer of 2020, according to multiple reports.
Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports reported on Friday that the NCAA is looking to provide an automatic COVID-19 waiver to student athletes if they meet the following criteria: meet core course requirements before their senior year of high school and maintained a 2.3 grade point average.
The ACT and SAT scores would be excluded.
Sources: Incoming student athletes with an expected spring/summer 2020 graduation will receive an automatic COVID-19 waiver from the NCAA if they meet the following criteria:
– Meet core course requirements before their senior year of HS
– 2.3 GPA*ACT/SAT scores are excluded
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) April 17, 2020
March and April dates for the SAT and ACT tests were canceled due to the ongoing pandemic, which left some student-athletes in a sticky situation if they had not yet taken the tests or had not scored high enough to qualify for enrollment. It appears the NCAA is willing to trash that requirement for one year, given the circumstances.
It would certainly benefit many student-athletes and could save the NCAA from having to deal with several individual situations and circumstances further down the road.
Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB