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Summer Financial Aid Prior to Initial, Full-Time Enrollment

During the 2004 legislative cycle, the NCAA Board of Directors adopted permissive legislation to allow institutions to provide athletically related financial aid to qualified prospective student-athletes the summer prior to initial full-time enrollment. The Board did, however, agree that this permissive language should only be awarded to a specific pool of qualified prospective student-athletes. In response to the Board's request to define the pool of prospective student-athletes that could receive such aid as of May 1, 2005, the NCAA staff developed four options for review by the Management Council and Board of Directors. In July 2004, the Management Council reviewed the options but did not take action. A committee will be established to review the options in more detail and provide a report to the Board of Directors at the August or October meeting.

Below are the four options outlined for the purpose of defining the pool for summer financial aid prior to initial, full-time enrollment that will be reviewed by the committee:

Option 1:
Provide institutions the autonomy to develop specific, non-athletically related criteria for use in identifying prospects that would benefit from summer enrollment prior to their first full-time academic year.

Option 2:
Identify a consistent, national standard academic profile, based on predicted first-year academic success, which would be applied by every institution to determine eligibility for receipt of athletics aid during the summer term immediately prior to initial, full-time enrollment.

Option 3:
Permit institutions the opportunity to select all summer athletics aid recipients without qualifying guidelines, but limit the amount of athletics aid awarded to not more than 20 percent of the incoming freshman class within each sport.

Option 4:
Combine a sport-by-sport limit of the total amount of summer athletics aid awarded with non-athletically related criteria for selection of prospective student-athlete recipients.