From the NCAA web site... a document discussing changes to the NCAA's eligibility requirements for high school students about to enter college and who wish to play sports.
Read the last paragraph on page 1. The NCAA has decided that computer science is not acceptable for credit towards fulfilling the course requirements.
On one hand, I sympathize a bit with them. There are a lot of high schools out there who teach basic literacy classes but wrongly label them as "computer science." On the other hand, there are lots of legitimate computer science classes being offered, often to prepare students to take the very rigorous AP Computer Science exam.
But rather than exert any effort toward actually discerning the difference between the two (um, this class meets the requirements for AP CS, and this one doesn't), the NCAA in their infinite wisdom decided to just eliminate anything labeled "computer science." Because God knows, we don't want anyone to think that computer science is IMPORTANT or WORTH LEARNING or DRIVING OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH or MIGHT GET YOU A JOB AFTER YOU DESTROY YOUR BODY PLAYING COLLEGE FOOTBALL.
But of course, they're willing to go to great effort to tell high school kids that even if they only have a 2.0 grade point average, if they get a 1010 on their SAT they can still play ball.
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