Questions Regarding Harvard Athletic Recruitment

gointhruaphase
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:31:53 +0000

Please, please, when interpreting NCAA rules, do your own research. Don’t rely on posters on this site (or elsewhere).

With that warning in mind, I think you are mixing up concepts. You discussed when a person is a “prospect” or put differently a “prospective student athlete” according Harvard’s website. I think this is a reference to the age (or year in high school) at which the NCAA’s rules about communications from coaches to prospective student athletes are triggered. The clue is that later on the website says “[d]epending on what sport you play, coaches may call you at different points during your high school career. Please note that prospects can always initiate a phone call to a coach as long as the call is initiated by the prospect and is at the prospect’s expense.”

The point raised by @twoinanddone is distinct. It is whether taking classes at a university would make you a “transfer” student, meaning that you would have to spend a year in residence before competing for the school.

There is an exception. Under NCAA Bylaw 14.5.3.1 the exception is where “[t]he student has been enrolled in or attended classes only in a summer school, extension course or night school, unless the night school is considered by the institution to be a regular term (semester or quarter) the same as its day school, the student is enrolled
for a minimum full-time load in this regular night term, and the student is considered by the institution to be a regularly enrolled student.” You should probably consult the NCAA to determine whether this exception would apply to you.