Student-Athlete Criteria
When students are considering Athletic Scholarships through the NJCAA, the following criteria must be met.
- Eligibility to play the sport,
- Students must be a high school graduate or must have received a high school equivalency diploma
- Junior Colleges are unique in the fact that eligibility and academic standard are determined on a per student/athlete basis
Determining Eligibility
Only an individual who is an amateur is eligible for intercollegiate athletics participation in a NJCAA certified sport.
An individual loses amateur status and thus shall not be eligible for intercollegiate competition in a NJCAA certified sport if any of the following criteria applies:
An individual loses amateur status and thus shall not be eligible for intercollegiate competition in a NJCAA certified sport if any of the following criteria applies:
- Uses his or her athletics skill (directly or indirectly) for pay in any form in that sport;
- Accepts a promise of pay even if such pay is to be received following completion of intercollegiate athletics participation;
- Signs a contract or commitment of any kind to play professional athletics
- Receives, directly or indirectly, a salary, reimbursement of expenses or any other form of financial assistance from a professional sports organization based on athletics skill or participation;
- Competes on any professional athletics team, or on a team where any member of the team is considered professional
- Enters into a professional draft
Placement Tests
Students might have to take a placement test. Even programs that are open enrollment do not automatically register students for college-level classes. In order to determine if remedial or developmental course work is necessary, most community colleges require placement tests, such as:
- The College Board's Accuplacer
- ACT's COMPASS
- State-specific tests like Florida's College-Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST)
- The college's own tests