The USAD Board has voted to move the USAP and USAD Nationals online for 2022. All aspects of these competitions will be virtual. Details will be shared when available.

Due to continued grading issues in many schools and districts caused by the pandemic, GPAs for the 2021-2022 competition season will be calculated in accordance with the following:  

• GPAs will be based on one academic year of calculable grades (letter and/or numerical grades and not pass/fail), not two years as in the past.   
• Terms without calculable grades cannot be used.  
• GPA forms should represent a full-time student (four or more class periods that are Academic Decathlon acceptable) with calculable grades.    
• Grades used from the 2019-2020 academic year, including summer grades, must be calculated in the same way they were calculated for the 2020-2021 competition season.   
• Finding 12 months of calculable grades may require using graded terms from a year or two before the pandemic.   
• The 12 months of calculable grades may be separated by non-calculable terms (i.e. there may be a term or terms not used chronologically in the middle of the terms used).
• Summer courses do not need to meet the minimum requirement of 4 Academic Decathlon acceptable courses to be included. Acceptable summer courses cannot be included to the previous Spring or Fall term to meet the minimum of 4 Academic Decathlon acceptable courses for that term.

 
The eligibility guidelines and GPA calculation forms have been updated for the 2021-22 season and can be found under the "Coaches" link:  https://usad.org/Coaches/GPA.aspx
 

The outlines for the 2021-2022 Academic Decathlon curriculum have been posted!