May 11, 2007

NCAA Ruling on Preparatory Schools Could Send More Athletes to Junior Colleges

By BRAD WOLVERTON

As part of its continuing crackdown on fraudulent preparatory schools, the NCAA passed legislation last month designed to prevent high-school athletes with low grades from taking fluff courses at diploma mills to increase their chances of playing college sports.

The rule, passed quietly by the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors and first reported by The New York Times last week, stipulates that students may count only one core course that they take after graduating from high school

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