<p>Just clarifying two pieces of information on the link above:</p>
<p>1/ An individual athlete can be more than one standard deviation from the campus average, however the team as a whole must be within one standard deviation.
2/ The minimum AI for a recruited athlete was raised from 171 to 176 in 2011.</p>
<p>^^ Noted, thanks.</p>
<p>As an international student, I don’t have a GPA. So, I converted my schools results into an American GPA and then did the AI calculation. Does anyone know whether the following sources for results conversions are likely to be accurate? The scales of both sources are the same- linked below.</p>
<p><a href=“GPA Calculator”>http://www.foreigncredits.com/Resources/GPA-Calculator/</a>
<a href=“Country Resources - WES.org”>http://www.wes.org/gradeconversionguide/index.asp</a></p>
<p>I’m just interested in knowing whether the AI that I calculated is accurate.</p>
<p>^^ I’ve seen both of those websites before, but don’t know how accurate they are.</p>
<p>This website (linked below) has a similar scale- although slightly different.</p>
<p><a href=“http://southafrica.usembassy.gov/study_faq.html”>http://southafrica.usembassy.gov/study_faq.html</a></p>
<p>My feeling, is that it has to be correct. </p>
<p>Sorry if I’m “hijacking” your thread Bemused, but I have a question pertaining to something @skieurope said earlier: Course rigor is what your guidance counselor checks off on the SSR for your SENIOR YEAR classes only or is it for the ENTIRE four years of high school?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance. </p>
<p>No problem! @PoisonIvy20</p>
<p>@poisonivy20: your guidance counselor rates the rigor of your course load based upon all 4 years of high school.</p>
<p>Hmmm. In that case, I may as well jump in here with a related question of my own. How is course rigor assessed for internationals? I don’t have a ‘guidance counselor’- it’s quite literally a foreign concept in my country. Additionally, I don’t think it’s likely that Harvard admissions would know the different syllabi for every country around the world intimately enough to assess rigor- although I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Thanks gibby. I’m assuming course rigor would be in terms of APs and honors classes. How many APs in total would you say makes a student’s guidance counselor check “most rigorous” for course load for top colleges? Like 8-10? And I’m not talking of the super- overachiever crazy people (lol no offense to anybody reading) on here that take 12+ APs? It’s the way my school is set up; Not a lot of leeway to choose many electives until senior year. </p>
<p>Thanks again.</p>
<p>Someone at your school will need to fill out the secondary school report. If you don’t have counselors, it would be someone in the administration.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admissions_SecondarySchoolReport.pdf”>http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admissions_SecondarySchoolReport.pdf</a></p>
<p>@PoisonIvy20, I would ask the GC at your school. I think it varies from school to school. I know for my D, the GC told her that if she wasn’t taking AP Calc next year that she would not be able to mark off “most rigorous” schedule. (My D is a humanities kid, not STEM.) I think it’s kind of up to the school and what its policy is. </p>
<p>Thank You! @suzy100 I will be sure to do that. </p>
<p>Thank you! @skieurope</p>