# ACT score for a student with a 2.7 GPA

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**Tags:** ncaa, act-scores, gpa\
**Created:** [December 2, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://experthub.prepscholar.com/t/act-score-for-a-student-with-a-2-7-gpa/7960 "2016-12-02T13:35:33Z")\
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If a student has a certain low GPA (2.7), can scoring high on the ACT keep him/her going to a Division 1 school? If so, how high would they have to score to go D1?

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**Yes.** As we discuss in [this article about NCAA GPA and SAT/ACT scores](https://blog.prepscholar.com/ncaa-act-scores-what-you-need-to-qualify), NCAA uses a sliding scale for Division I eligibility. If a student has a 2.7 GPA in his/her core courses, he/she would qualify for Division I with an ACT sum of [61](https://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/eligibility_center/Quick_Reference_Sheet.pdf#page=2&zoom=auto,-27,634). This means that the student's English, Math, Reading, and Science Scores would all have to add up to 61; if the scores were roughly evenly distributed among the sections, that comes out to a 15/15/15/16, or a **composite ACT score of 15**.