<p>I have read up on a lot of the AI calculators and am a little confused about the bands. S is a junior and has a 1790 on the SAT in fall of junior year. GPA is 3.3 but improving and should be 3.5 or 3.6 by graduation time. S is young and will be 17 when he graduates from HS.</p>
<p>S is 6-0, 230 and ran a 4.8 40 at 16 which should improve to 4.6 (all handhelds). All district in a highly competitive football district and should do the same next year. He would love, love, love to play LB/FB in college.</p>
<p>He has not taken any SAT IIs, but ignoring that, when I look at the AI calcs I see that his roughly estimated AI is 230. That would be in the high band based on what I've seen.</p>
<p>Here's my question - since we don't have SAT II's yet, should I go ahead and send video to Ivies with the regular SAT score? I will be sending videos to non-Ivies in a couple of weeks. I would rather do it all at once than have a non-Ivy send and an Ivy send. I think another way of asking this question is "how sophisticated are the coaches at seeing that a kid has the test scores" - in other words, do you get the scores first and then do the video, or do you do the video first to get their attention and then get the scores? It seems to me that there are many subtle differences between Ivies and decent to good academic schools.</p>
<p>Seems like you might be running the calculator wrong, unless he is really high in his class with that 3.3 You can just plug in his average SAT scores for the SAT IIs. I put in 600 600 590 and then two 600s for SAT IIs, top 25% for class position and 3.3 GPA. This yielded a pretty low band…</p>
<p>Where are you getting that? If you take SAT/10 plus the GPA (no ranking) it seems to me it that it is 179 plus CRS which, if he is average in a class of 100 seems to be around 40-45, which (I think) yields a 220-230 AI. Is the SAT/10 plus GPA not the right inputs?</p>
<p>There are various formulas, but remember they are based on only two of the SAT I scores (CR +M).
An estimate would be 1790/3 = 558 or ca 560 per score. (560 + 560)/10 = 112
plus the CRS which would be around 66</p>
<p>As for how adept are the coaches are figuring out the potential AI of recruits? They can do the calculation in their sleep! For my DD, virtually the first question the coach asked her on the phone was Standardized Test scores, class ranking and GPA.</p>
<p>Although football goes by bands, for other sports the Team AI has to be within one standard deviation of the Campus AI. The Athletic AI (all athletes) also must be within one standard deviation of the Campus AI.</p>
<p>In general the lower the AI, the higher the athletic skill to be recruited.</p>
<p>All things remaining equal, he would be reaching… a lot. </p>
<p>If your son possesses mad skills, has crazy impressive film and could fill an immediate void on some coach’s roster as an impact player - he might peak interest - especially if he commits to finishing his Jr year well enough to positively affect GPA , and works with a tutor over summer to improve test scores.</p>
<p>I’d encourage my son to put at least one Ivy on his reach list for giggles… but I would also counsel him to pepper his list with some DIAA, DII and DIII schools where he can see himself playing, that more closely match his academic achievement and interests. Good luck~</p>
<p>Thanks for responses. Grades will improve, test scores should improve, and he happens to be a pretty good fb player. We’ll see how it goes. We’ve done unofficials to Rice, Tulsa and SMU, but as Mary suggested I’d like for him to consider an Ivy. I should clarify - test scores were 64 and 53 on PSAT for verbal and math, up about 10 points from soph test scores. This is an interesting process.</p>