Please can someone answer these questions: (1) What is the point of registering on the NCAA website; (2) If you will be applying to Div 1 and Div 3 colleges, what account do you opt for – the Div 1 account or the Div 2-3 account? Thank you all!
- If you are going on an OV, I'm pretty sure you need to have registered. This is because the recruit is limited to 5 OVs, and each is logged with NCAA. Without an account, these visits cannot be logged. Additionally, you will need a certification of amateur status to play NCAA sports. Now that OVs will be allowed in a prospect's junior year of HS, I think people should start the process of registering with the NCAA in the spring of sophomore year of HS.
- I'm pretty sure nothing is needed for Div 3. So you are really just registering for DivI/II...and I think if you register for I, it covers II. Or at least it did when my daughter registered.
The point is that you can’t play NCAA D1 or D2 unless you register, send in your transcripts from EACH high school you attend, and the final transcript that you have graduated, send in the ACT or SAT score.
I didn’t know there were different accounts. My daughter was recruited by all three levels but attends a d2 school. If she had to choose, I’d have said do the D1 account as a D1 player can drop down. D3 recruits do not have to register.
Thank you. Great advice as usual @SevenDad!
On the NCAA registration page, there are two options: Create an Account for Div. 1 & 2; and Create a Profile for Div 3 & Undecided. Per @twoinanddone and @SevenDad, it seems best to do the Create an Account option that covers Div 1 & 2 and assume it covers Div 3 too. Thank you!
@Roseystoney: TBH, daughter was never considering D3 schools, so I didn’t even see that “create a profile” language.
BTW, this language from the NCAA Eligibility Center home page is succinct explanation of the “why” behind the Eligibility Center: “You need to create a Certification Account to make official visits to Divisions I and II schools or to sign a National Letter of Intent.”
The profile page is (or at least used to be) free, unnecessary, and there is no associated certification of eligibility. It is just a place where coaches can look you up (which they won’t unless you give them your NCAA number). The DI/DII certification is what you MUST have if you want to compete at either of those levels. It sounds like, from your interests, this is what you need.