PHAA's Core Courses for NCAA Eligibility
by Howard Richman
Pennsylvania Homeschoolers Accreditation Agency (PHAA) is recognized by the NCAA. As a result, PHAA graduates can easily get athletic scholarships.
As part of its Academic eligibility requirements NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) requires that its Division I and Division II scholarship recipients have taken a sufficient number of core courses while achieving a high enough grade point average. Click here for more information about the NCAA's academic eligibility requirements
PHAA students who plan to apply for an NCAA athletic scholarships to college should stick, as much as possible, to the following course titles on their transcripts since other titles will not be considered "core courses" by the NCAA:
English Core Courses:
- English 9
- English 10
- English 11
- English 12
- Enlish Lang/AP
- English Lit/AP
Mathematics Core Courses:
- Alg 1
- Alg 2
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Trigonometry
- Calculus
- Calculus AB/AP
- Calculus BC/AP
- Statistics/AP
Social Studies Core Courses:
- American Cultures
- Ancient History
- Anthropology
- Civics
- Economics
- Geography
- History
- History of the US and Pennsylvania
- Modern History
- Pennsylvania History
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Sociology
- United States History
- World Cultures
- World History
- Comp Govt and Pol/AP
- European History/AP
- Human Geography/AP
- Macro Economics/AP
- Micro Economics/AP
- Psychology/AP
- US Govt and Politics/AP
- US History/AP
- Wrld History/AP
Science Core Courses:
- Anatomy
- Astronomy
- Biological Science
- Biology
- Chemical Science
- Chemistry
- Earth Science
- Ecology
- Environmental Science
- General Science
- Geology
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Biology/AP
- Chemistry/AP
- Environmental Science/AP
- Physics B/AP
- Physics C/AP
Additional Core Courses:
- Philosophy
- French
- French 1
- French 2
- French 3
- French 4
- French Lang/AP
- French Lit/AP
- German
- German 1
- German 2
- German 3
- German 4
- German Lang/AP
- Greek
- Greek 1
- Greek 2
- Greek 3
- Greek 4
- Hebrew
- Hebrew 1
- Hebrew 2
- Hebrew 3
- Hebrew 4
- Latin
- Latin 1
- Latin 2
- Latin 3
- Latin 4
- Latin Virgil/AP
- Latin Lit/AP
- Spanish
- Spanish 1
- Spanish 2
- Spanish 3
- Spanish 4
- Span Lang/AP
- Span Lit/AP
Click here to go to type in our school code (392057) and see the same list on the NCAA website
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