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But doesn't the NCAA put pressure on schools to make athletes progress toward graduation quickly, with APR scores?

Yes, but NCAA grad requirements are notoriously lax, and they call consider someone to have graduated if they graduated within 6 years of enrollment.

The student-athlete graduation rate calculated directly based on IPEDS-GRS (which is the methodology the U.S. Department of Education requires) is the proportion of first-year, full-time student-athletes who entered a school on athletics aid and graduated from that institution within six years. This federal rate does not account for students who transfer from their original institution and graduate elsewhere; they are considered non-graduates at both the college they left and the one from which they eventually graduate.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/rese...tion-rates

APR is even more lax:

Each student-athlete receiving athletically related financial aid earns one point for staying in school and one point for being academically eligible

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/rese...-explained

NCAA academic eligibility is a joke.

BC

[BostonCard]

But doesn't the NCAA put pressure on schools to make athletes progress toward graduation quickly, with APR scores?

Yes, but NCAA grad requirements are notoriously lax, and they call consider someone to have graduated if they graduated within 6 years of enrollment.

The student-athlete graduation rate calculated directly based on IPEDS-GRS (which is the methodology the U.S. Department of Education requires) is the proportion of first-year, full-time student-athletes who entered a school on athletics aid and graduated from that institution within six years. This federal rate does not account for students who transfer from their original institution and graduate elsewhere; they are considered non-graduates at both the college they left and the one from which they eventually graduate.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/rese...tion-rates

APR is even more lax:

Each student-athlete receiving athletically related financial aid earns one point for staying in school and one point for being academically eligible

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/rese...-explained

NCAA academic eligibility is a joke.

BC