<p>I meant summer school where you are at…from your high school. I would still call the hotline, they could give you more options. Good Luck!</p>
<p>NCAA approves courses from Brigham Young University’s online school (they offer a full contingent of high school and college courses). Call the NCAA and double check with them on the course you want to take. It is very inexpensive (around $200 for a full credit course) and you can do either online or correspondence.</p>
<p>NCAA will not waive their requirements, but the aforementioned suggestions of Brigham on line, summer school or even seeing if your high school has an approved course you can use in place of the social science or half credit required (there are approved course lists for each school, and they often change with course titles, etc.). It is imperative that you meet their stringent requirements in order to receive final certification, which is the only way you can meet the compliance requirements at a Division 1 or Division 2 school.</p>
<p>For everyone else, submit your materials in junior year, and FOLLOW YOUR NCAA status on line VERY carefully - take charge of the credentials required, etc. - often high schools are inexperienced, well meaning or inundated and do not take care of these time sensitive documents properly. They can cost you attendance, scholarships and playing opportunity at D1 and DII schools. Transcripts, proper amount of credits, appropriate grades, SAT/ACT score requirments, final high school diploma and signing the amateur status are all requirements for final certification and eligibility. Also, the requirements have changed for DI and are in the process of changing for DII so be careful you are meeting the minimum credits, grades, scores, etc.</p>
<p>The NCAA will do waivers as well, but I wouldn’t want to take that chance unless you knew for certain it would be okay. My son’s school tells me they get waivers “all the time”. Their athletes are also top students, but it is often a case of kids who have repeated a grade (public to prep transfers this is common) thereby taking two years of freshman english, for example (only one of them will count toward the NCAA requirement). Because the school is so rigorous and not merely a “factory” to pump out athletes, the NCAA does grant the waiver.</p>