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Below you will find further clarification to the task assigned in your NCAA Eligibility account, with additional clarification on what is being requested and helpful examples of responses.

International students: Please review the NCAA Guide to International Academic Standards for Athletics Eligibility for your country-specific information.

What the Task Says

To complete your amateurism certification, we need to establish your official graduation timeline.

A tentative graduation timeline has been established in your account based on the official documents submitted. This task has been assigned because there are other acceptable graduation credentials from the educational system(s) you attended with lengthier expected timeline(s) for completion.

We are requesting confirmation of the final graduation credential you will earn to ensure we have the accurate graduation timeline on your account.

Further information is needed to finalize your timeline. Please click here for the form that is required to establish your graduation timeline.

This task will be marked complete when we review the requested documents.

All acceptable graduation credentials can be found in the NCAA Guide to International Academic Standards for Athletics Eligibility. Credentials that will permit NCAA Eligibility Center staff to extend your graduation timeline are listed only in “Acceptable Proof of Graduation” sections.

Why We Sent the Task

The “Academic Documents Needed for Purposes of Amateurism Review” task is assigned when we have questions about your educational timeline, and we are trying to determine whether you have completed your secondary school education or are still pursuing additional academic credentials. We will not be able to proceed with your amateurism certification until this task has been completed.

You may have received this task in your account for one of the following reasons:

Why We Sent the Task	What We Need
We have documents on file indicating you completed an initial tier of proof of graduation from your country as listed in our International Guide, but we do not have your credentials from the final tier of graduation from your country.	Submit official copies of the credentials if they were completed in a previous academic year. Your secondary school or issuing body can email them to ec-processing@ncaa.org, or your NCAA school can upload them directly to your account with an Academic Record Submission Form. See Example 1 below.
We have documents on file indicating you completed an initial tier of proof of graduation from your country as listed in our International Guide, and we need your secondary school to confirm that you are pursuing additional academic credentials from a subsequent tier of graduation in your country in the current academic year.	Your secondary school administrator needs to complete and return Section B of this form to ec-processing@ncaa.org. See Example 2 below.
We have all of your academic documents on file, but you did not complete the final tier of graduation as listed in our International Guide.	The student must complete and return Section A of this this form to ec-processing@ncaa.org. See Example 3 below.
You are currently enrolled at a U.S./American-style high school.	A final transcript with proof of graduation must be submitted from your U.S./American-style high school.

Examples

Please note that the policies for every country are different, and you should carefully review the policies for your country listed in our International Standards Guide. Some countries have Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 credentials, while other countries only have Tier 1 and Tier 2 credentials.

The expected timeline of completion for each tier is also different for every country. For example, the United Kingdom has three tiers: Tier 1 (11-year timeline), Tier 2 (12-year timeline) and Tier 3 (13-year timeline). However, Jamaica only has two tiers: Tier 1 (11-year timeline) and Tier 2 (13-year timeline).

Please consider all examples below as occurring on October 1, 2018, in a country with Tier 1, 2 and 3 credentials. The school’s academic calendar runs from August through June of each year, so the current academic year is the 2018-2019 school year.

Example 1 – Credential Earned in Previous Academic Year

A student earned:

• A Tier 1 credential (11-year graduation timeline) in 2015;
• A Tier 2 credential (12-year graduation timeline) in 2016 and;
• A Tier 3 credential (13-year graduation timeline) in 2017.

The student has submitted:

• A Tier 1 credential (11-year graduation timeline) earned in 2015.

Example Response 1

This student would need to submit an official copy of their Tier 3 credential earned in 2017 to complete the task. Because the document was earned in a previous academic year (2017), we would not be able to accept a Graduation Timeline Confirmation Form to satisfy this task (see Example 2 below). Furthermore, if we only received the student’s Tier 2 credential earned in 2016, the task would remain open until we received the Tier 3 credential. Because the student already earned a credential from the final tier of graduation in their country, they must submit an official copy of that document for review to satisfy this task.

Our complete list of official document submission policies can be found here.

Example 2 – Credential Being Pursued in Current Academic Year

A student earned:

• A Tier 1 credential (11-year graduation timeline) in 2017.

The student is pursuing:

• A Tier 3 credential (13-year timeline) to be earned in 2019.

Example Response 2

The student’s secondary school administrator needs to complete and return Section B of this form to ec-processing@ncaa.org. The form would be accepted for this student and this task would close if:

1. The credential is an acceptable proof of graduation listed in our International Standards Guide;
2. The credential is being pursued in the current academic year (2018-2019 in this example) and;
3. The form was completed and returned directly from the secondary school administrator. We cannot accept a Graduation Timeline Confirmation Form Section B if all three of these requirements are not met.

Example 3 – Student did not complete final tier of graduation

A student earned and has submitted:

• A Tier 1 credential (11-year graduation timeline) in 2015 and;
• A Tier 2 credential (12-year graduation timeline) in 2016.

The student did not earn:

• A Tier 3 credential (13-year graduation timeline).

Example Response 3

The student needs to complete and return Section A of this form to ec-processing@ncaa.org. Because the student did not complete the final tier of graduation in their country (Tier 3 in this example), this task will stay open until we receive the form returned by the student. Once Section A of this form is returned to ec-processing@ncaa.org by the student, the task will close.