The entire 2006-07 NCAA Transfer Guide can be viewed HERE

Division III Transfers

Generally, a transfer student from a two-year institution is not eligible for competition until the student has fulfilled a year of residence at the institution to which the student is transferring. However, you will be eligible to compete if you meet one of the following three exceptions before you transfer:
1 . For a consecutive two-year period immediately before the date on which you begin participation (practice and/or competition), you have neither practiced nor competed in the involved sport in intercollegiate competition,

OR

2. You have not previously participated in intercollegiate athletics,

OR

3 . You have participated in intercollegiate athletics, and you would have been academically and athletically eligible for competition if you had remained at the two-year college.

If you do not meet all the requirements of one of the three options listed above, you will not be permitted to compete in your first year of residence at that school. However, you will be eligible to practice and receive institutional financial aid at the Division III school, provided you are enrolled in a minimum full-time program of studies and meet applicable conference and institutional regulations.  Keep in mind that Division III institutions do not award athletics scholarships.

Ten-Semester/ 1 5-Quarter Rule (Divisions II and III)

If you transfer to a Division II or III school, the 10-semester/15-quarter rule applies. This rule is different from the five-year rule for Division I and gives you more flexibility in completing your seasons of competition. This provides you with 10 semesters or 15 quarters of full-time collegiate enrollment in which to participate in a maximum of four seasons of competition. Under this system, a student who attends college as a full-time student for two semesters and then withdraws from school for two years may return to a Division II or III school and have eight semesters of eligibility remaining. If you have spent time out of school for personal or financial reasons, you may wish to consider attending a Division II or III school.

Helpful Hints:
“ 2 - 4 ” and “ 4 - 2 - 4 ” Transfer Students
(Transferring from a 2 year institution to a 4 year institution or from a 4 year to a 2 year to a 4 year)

1 . Grade-point average calculation. If you have read the information related to transfer requirements, you know that to meet certain transfer requirements, you must have a minimum grade-point average of 2.000. This grade-point average must be calculated in the following manner: Grades that you earn in all courses that are transferable to an NCAA school must be considered in determining your grade-point average, regardless of the grade earned or whether the grade makes the course unacceptable for transfer credit. For example, if you take an arts and crafts course at the two-year college and receive an A in the course and the course is not transferable, the NCAA school is required to delete the grade you earned in the course from your grade-point average calculation. If you fail an English course that normally is transferable to the NCAA school, the NCAA school is required to include the grade you earned in the English course in computing your grade-point average, even though the grade makes the course unacceptable for transfer credit. Remember, if the course is one that normally would be transferable, the grade in that course must be included in calculating your grade-point average, no matter what grade you earn.

2. Transfer exceptions. You are not subject to the one-year residence requirement as a “2-4” transfer student if you meet the following exception:

Two - Year Nonparticipation Exception. For a continuous two-year period immediately before the date on which the student begins participation (practice and/or competition), the student has neither practiced nor competed in the sport in intercollegiate competition or in organized non-collegiate amateur competition while enrolled as a full-time student-athlete in a collegiate institution. This two-year period does not include any time before initial collegiate enrollment.

3.  If you have ever participated in intercollegiate athletics and you transferred from a four-year institution to a two-year college and then to a Division III institution, you must have been both athletically and academically eligible had you remained at the previous four-year institution or you must have successfully completed at least 24-semester or 36-quarter hours of transferable-degree credit and spent at least two semesters or three quarters of attendance at the two-year college in order to be immediately eligible at the Division III school.

"4 - 4" Transfer Students
(Transferring from a 4 year institution to a 4 year institution)

“ 4 - 4 ” Transfers Serving Year of Residence
If you transfer to a member institution from a four-year college, you must complete one academic year of residence at the certifying institution before being eligible to compete for or to receive travel expenses from the member institution, unless you qualify for a transfer exception or waiver.

Determination of Year of Residence
To satisfy an academic year of residence, you must be enrolled in and complete a minimum full-time program of studies for two full semesters or three full quarters or be enrolled in a minimum full-time program of studies for two full semesters or three full quarters and pass a number of hours that is at least equal to the sum total of the minimum load of each of the required terms.

Conditions Affecting Transfer Status
1 . If you were enrolled full-time and attended a day of classes as a full-time student at any two-year or four-year college (even if you dropped to part-time status during the term), you are considered a transfer student.
2 . If you ever practiced or competed with a college team, you are considered a transfer student.
3 . If you received institutional financial aid during the academic year or during the summer, you are considered a transfer student.
(Note: Attendance in summer school alone does not affect your transfer status.)

Waivers / Exceptions for Student-Athletes Transferring from a Four- Year College to a Division I, II or III Institution

If you are transferring from a four-year college to an NCAA Division I, II or III institution, you are not eligible for intercollegiate competition until you have fulfilled a residence requirement of one full academic year at the certifying institution; however, if you meet one of the transfer exceptions listed below, you may be immediately eligible for competition and may not have to serve a year of residence. Please contact the certifying institution for additional conference or university regulations that may be applicable. If you are a partial qualifier or non-qualifier and have not served a year of residence at a four-year college, you cannot use a transfer exception or waiver to be immediately eligible. If you are a partial qualifier or non-qualifier who has served a year of residence or if you are a qualifier, you may be eligible to use one of the following exceptions to the one-year transfer residence requirement:

1. One - Time Transfer Exception. You transfer to the certifying Division I or II institution from another four-year college and all of the following conditions are met:
( a ) You are a participant in a sport other than Division I basketball, Division I - A football or Division I men’s ice hockey at the school to which you are
transferring. A participant in Division I-AA football at the college to which you are transferring may use this exception only if you transferred to the
certifying institution from an institution that sponsors Division I-A football, or the participant transfers from a Division I-AA institution that offers athletics aid in the sport of football to a Division I-AA institution that does not offer athletics aid in the sport of football.

( b )You have not transferred previously from a four-year college unless, in the previous transfer, you received a discontinued/non-sponsored sport exception.

( c ) You are in good academic standing and meet the satisfactory-progress requirements. You must have been academically eligible had you remained at the university you are transferring from and you also must be eligible at the certifying institution as a regularly enrolled full-time, degree-seeking student-athlete who was admitted in accordance with the re g u l a r, published entrance requirements of the institution.

( d )Your previous college releases you by certifying in writing that it has no objection to you being granted an exception to the transfer residence
requirement. (If your previous college denies your request for the release, the institution shall inform you in writing that you, upon request, will be provided a hearing conducted by an institutional entity or committee outside of the athletics department.)

(Note: If you transfer to the certifying school from a Division III member institution and meet the foregoing conditions, you may be eligible to compete but shall not receive athletically related financial aid during the first academic year in residence at the certifying institution.)

2 . Two - Year Nonparticipation Exception. If you transfer to a Division I, II or III college from another four-year college and, for a consecutive two-year period immediately before the date on which you began participation (practice and/or competition), you have neither practiced nor competed in the
involved sport in intercollegiate competition or in organized non-collegiate amateur competition while enrolled as a full-time student-athlete in a collegiate
institution. This two-year period does not include any period before your initial collegiate enrollment.

3 . Discontinued/Non-sponsored Sport Exception. In a particular sport when you transfer at any time to the certifying Division I or II school and participate in the sport on the intercollegiate level after any of the following conditions
have occurred:
( a ) Your original four-year college dropped the sport (in which you have practiced or competed at that institution in intercollegiate competition) from its intercollegiate program.
( b )Your original four-year college reclassified the sport (in which you have practiced or competed at that institution in intercollegiate competition) from Division I to Division III status, and since then you have not competed in that sport on the Division III level.
( c ) Your original four-year college never sponsored the sport on the intercollegiate level while you were in attendance at the university, provided that you never transferred from any other college that off e red intercollegiate competition in that particular sport.

4. Military Service/Church Mission Exception. You return from at least 18 months of active service in the armed forces of the United States or on an official church mission.

5. Discontinued Academic Program. Your institution concludes that you changed schools in order to continue a major course of study because your original college discontinued the academic program in your major.

6. Division III Exception. If you wish to transfer to a Division III school, you will be eligible to compete immediately if you have not participated previously in intercollegiate athletics. If you have participated in intercollegiate athletics, you must have been academically and athletically eligible for competition had you remained at that institution.

7.  Foreign Student Program Exception.

8.  Exchange Student Exception.

9.  Educational Exchange Program.