Regarding eligibilty.. this seems correct to be eligible as a freshman 1) The NCAA bases their eligibility on a sliding scale. The NAIA does not. You must meet 2 of 3 requirements: 2.0 GPA, 18 ACT (or 860 SAT on math and verbal only), and/or top 50% of your class.
2) The NCAA takes your TOP score from the SAT. If you take the test 5x, the NCAA takes your top math, verbal, and reading score from each individual test. Therefore if you took the SAT in August and scored a math-600, reading 750 and then you took it again in Sept. and scored math-700, reading 700 then your NCAA SAT would be a 1450. If you were becoming NAIA eligible then your SAT score would only be a 1400. The NAIA takes the complete score from each individual test. I had a kid this year that had a 920 on his SAT via the NCAA, but his NAIA SAT was only an 860. That made him barely eligible. An 860 is equivalent to an 18 ACT, where as the 920 is equivalent to a 19 ACT.
As far as staying eligible you need to have at least a 2.0 GPA and complete 24 credits in your last 2 semesters and unlike the NCAA it rewards student athletes for getting good grades.. For example if you have above a 3.3 GPA only half of your scholarship money counts against your progrqam and if you have above a 3.6 your scholarship does not count at all against the program. This is how it was at the college I attended I would assume its the same for all NAIA schools. Also, I would assume that most schools do the drug testing on their own although it is not ran directly by the NAIA.
