There are certain requirements that you must meet in order to compete immediately after transferring to an NCAA institution. In addition to the NCAA rules for transfers, two-year college transfers to UNC Charlotte must meet the transfer standards of the NCAA.

The first thing you need to do is determine whether you would have been a qualifier or a nonqualifier at an NCAA school if you had elected to attend an NCAA institution as a freshman. You can receive help from your high-school guidance counselor, a college coach or the NCAA office to determine whether you would have been a qualifier. If you enrolled as a full-time student at a two-year college during or after the 1994-95 academic year, you must register with the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse only if you need to be classified as a qualifier (rather than the more restrictive transfer and eligibility regulations of a nonqualifier). Each year the NCAA produces the NCAA Guide for the College Bound Student-Athlete, a brochure that lists all of the requirements to be a qualifier, as well as registration procedures for the clearinghouse.

To receive a copy of this guide, simply contact the NCAA at 317-917-6222 or write to P.O. Box 6222, Indianapolis, IN., 46206-6222.

If you are a nonqualifier based on the Clearinghouse and you wish to receive athletics aid, practice and compete at an institution immediately after you transfer, you must meet all of the following requirements before you transfer:

• Graduate from the two-year college
• Completed satisfactorily a minimum of 48 semester or 72 quarter hours of transferable degree credit acceptable toward any baccalaureate degree program at the certifying institution,
• Attended a two-year college as a full-time student for at least three semesters or four quarters (excluding summer terms),
• A student cannot satisfy this requirement in one academic year.
• A minimum cumulative grade-point average of 2.000, and
• Earned not more than a total of 18 semester or 27 quarter hours of transferable degree during the summer terms, and not more than nine semester or 13.5 quarter hours of transferable degree credit may be earned during the summer terms immediately prior to transfer.