<p>With respect to the AI,
and the 3 digit score and the single digit score...</p>
<p>what is an acceptable range? 200? 220? higher?</p>
<p>7? 8? only 9?</p>
<p>Do only the Ivy schools use this?
Are there other types of calculators for schools to use?</p>
<p>If we want to look at DS's gpa weighted as a typical adcom will...
is there a thread of link to find that scale with respect to reg, honors, and APs</p>
<p>Thanks so much in advance for all wisdom.</p>
<p>It was only Ivy’s and acuople of top schools but I’m not sure that they use it anymore. I guess the 7/8/9 was the standard target. I haven’t seen anything on the way the adcom re-weight the GPA’s. I would guess that they would all do it differently.</p>
<p>So is AI an thing of the past?</p>
<p>Fogfog as an experienced parent I’m going to answer your question in a somewhat obtuse way. Why does it matter how they determine the AI or if they use it anymore? You, and more importantly, your child can not control it’s design or it’s use … and, in addition I believe, your child should not drive their high school experience around what some college somewhere may or may not like. </p>
<p>For my wife our goals are for our kids to push themselves academically (not kill themselves), find ECs they are passionate about and keep themselves busy beyond school work, take courses and exams that keep options open (without numerous retakes), and grow up to be good people and good citizens … and believe the college thing will work out just fine for them. Our children and we focus on things we control and try not to get caught up in the college admissions rat race. Given the threads you have started if I was your friend and you asked me for some advice I’d suggest you relax and let your child grow up and find their way through high school and the college thing will work out fine for them … probably better than if every decision is looked at as a strategic college admissions decision.</p>
<p>The Ivys and a few others use the AI or its equivalent to ensure that their athletic conferences are fully compliant with their academic mission.</p>
<p>Thanks
Hadn’t even heard of the AI until surfing this site yesterday. So helpful to know something about the admissions process.</p>
<p>The Ivy coach Kiddo has been communicating with has mentioned her AI and ‘the team’s AI’ in several conversations this past summer and fall. So I would say, ‘yes, they still use them’.</p>
<p>And even though it is true that the kid’s AI “is what it is” and nothing he/she can do about it now, it still provides something else to add into the numbers mix by which to gauge whether admission at such-and-such a school is a reasonable gamble or way off the mark when playing the recruitment dance with coaches.</p>
<p>As I understand it – maybe I have it wrong – AI is actually used only in connection with athletic recruiting/admissions in the Ivy League. Coaches have to maintain minimum AI averages and distributions for their teams, and they are severely limited in the number of low-AI athletes they can recruit.</p>
<p>For non-athletes, AI represents a simple algorithm of test scores and class rank. As such, it provides a rough guide to how Ivy colleges regard test scores and class rank (and non-Ivy colleges competitive with them are probably not much different). But anyone who has ever looked at Naviance scattergrams for Ivy colleges at one or more schools knows that a simple algorithm of test scores and class rank does not do a very good job of predicting who will be admitted. More kids with top AIs are admitted than kids with less-than-top AIs, but plenty of kids with top AIs are rejected or waitlisted, too.</p>
<p>Common correlations of the AI are : 7= 221-224; 8= 225-229; 9= 230-240. </p>
<p>While there are no strict cutoffs, 7s, 8s, and 9s will have the highest rates of acceptance. </p>
<p>Most schools never even admit that they use the AI formula on their official sites, it is often learned during the recruiting process. So it is difficult to determine how many schools use the exact method outside Ivies. Some similar calculation is used by admissions, as each application needs to have a quickly identifiable overall rating.</p>
<p>As for GPA, the AI uses class ranking first. With no rank, the weighted GPA is used. If your school does not weight, you are stuck with the unweighted GPA for AI.</p>
<p>Thank you. S is looking to be a recruited student athlete. </p>
<p>CC has lots of good info…as long as I sift through carefully ;o)</p>