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Those familiar with the NCAA and the use of online and/or classes for homeschoolers..


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I was hoping to have my dd take for her senior year as many online course as I could afford, but I heard that the NCAA is VERY selective about what it accepts for core courses. It sounds like they only accept community college type outside courses.

 

Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

Thx,

Whitney

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Are you talking about what colleges accept and dont accept? If so, many accept them if they are accredited and there are ones that dont care as long as they are on a nice transcript.

 

Both my dd's take online courses and the oldest was accepted into six universities.

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Are you talking about what colleges accept and dont accept?

NCAA = National Collegiate Athletic Association. They are the watchdogs to make sure that student athletes are indeed getting an adequate education. In order to play sports in college, they must approve high school core courses.

 

I have been bugging the NCAA for the last several months to make sure that the 3 courses that I am planning to outsource for 9th grade are acceptable to them. The most important thing to the NCAA is that the student use a verifiable high school text book.

 

One of ds's courses does not use a text book at all. :cursing: I was able to send them the syllabus, class notes, a test and test key, and a writing assignment, and get some assurance that it would be acceptable. I just may write in a high school level text book because I am so terrified of them.

 

You may want to do a search on the NCAA tag. There are a few threads. One may be helpful.

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No, I'm talking about the NCAA not colleges/universities. They are the "police" for athletes seeking to compete in colleges and making sure people have a real education before they're permitted to compete in a given college.

 

Thx,

Whitney

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My dd17 takes courses through Keystone...both textbook based and online...but not for everything.

 

Our plan was to take what Keystone required to get her diploma for NCAA purposes.

 

Today, I received an email from Keystone (and called them to confirm) that stated the NCAA will no longer accept correspondence or textbook courses...they must be online...to prove interaction with a teacher and to show hours logged. Goofy.

 

Now, I'm worrying if they are going to go back to their old way of processing homegrown courses...it used to be a nightmare from what I understand.

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My oldest has been approved to swim DI next year, but the only outside courses he took were through FL Virtual School which we chose because we knew they were NCAA approved. I did not have any real problems getting my self-designed courses approved. Actually he did take a couple of online writing courses but they did not assign grades or give credit.

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