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The SAT Test

Posted on 08 April 2009 by The SAI Team

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As a high school student-athlete who wants to participate in collegiate athletics, you must understand the importance of the SAT test. The SAT test is used by almost all colleges and universities to determine you acceptance to the institution. It is a three hour and forty-five minute test that is meant to measure a student’s proficiency in critical thinking, mathematical reasoning and writing. This test is intended to determine whether or not a person will be able to do college-level work.

Each section of the test is scored on a scale of 200-800 and the maximum score in the test can be 2400. However, most schools take the critical thinking and mathematical reasoning scores when determining the student’s acceptance. So it is really important for all prospective student athletes to focus their preparation on these two sections of the test.

Students can (and should) take the SAT as many times as they like/can. The average scores normally increase when the test is taken two times or more. An advantage of taking the test several times is that the highest scores from either test are taken to compute your total score. See the following example for better understanding:

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Are you 21? Your eligibility might be at risk

Posted on 23 March 2009 by The SAI Team

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This rule does not apply to all of you, but it does affect those who are taking or plan on taking time between high school graduation and college to play his or her sport. Also, this rule is directly applied to all sports other than tennis and swimming and diving athletes. You can read the related rule for all tennis and swimming and diving athletes below.

If you are 21 years old or more and engage in any participation as an individual or a team representative in organized sports competition during each 12-month period prior to initial full-time enrollment in a college or university, you will be penalized with one year of varsity competition in that sport. Basically, if you participate in any competition, either individually or in a team, after you turn 21 years old, you will lose…

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General Principles

Posted on 06 March 2009 by The SAI Team

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In order to be eligible for intercollegiate athletics, all prospect student athletes must have an amateur status and not be considered a professional athlete. All member institution’s athletic programs play a very important role in the formation of all of the institution’s student body. Therefore, a clear separation between college athletics and professional sports has to be emphasized.

There are several requisites all athletes must meet in order to be considered…

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