<p>Hello, so I have just used this AI calculator in order to try to calculate potential AI of myself in 2 years when I will try to be recruited by Ivy league schools. Now I imputed 700 cw 600 for math and 750 for each 3 sat 2 tests (will be easy sat 2 tests for me, might even get higher than these, math I suck at may drop very low even to 400 or 300) I then placed my GPA calculation (2.6), and my potential class rank in a class of 280, which is around top 50 percent or so. Now the result is 220, which is basically green light for me as long as I'm good at football.</p>
<p>Edit - Links to commercial posts are not allowed. I left this thread up because the OP wants information, which is fine. But the reference to that calculator has been removed. - FC</p>
<p>More than half of all US high schools no longer supply rank to colleges, so I’m not sure how colleges that highly value ranking calculate the AI if a high school doesn’t supply the number. Therefore, I think it’s more accurate to input your GPA for all ivy league schools, especially if your high school does not supply rank.</p>
<p>Your GPA is absolutely killing you, as half of the calculated AI comes from either your GPA. If you input 700 for all the SAT & SAT Subject Test Scores with a GPA of 2.60 to 2.69 and a class size of 300, your AI is 195. Although @Sherpa and I disagree about what Harvard’s football team AI could be, I think we might be in agreement that a 195 is on the lowish side. </p>
<p>May I suggest that you get a tutor for the next two years, as it’s extremely difficult to raise your GPA several points higher when you already have a base-line of 2.6.</p>
<p>^ I am getting a tutor for the next 3 years. My school also supplies rank, and my grades are around normal in my class, with only around 4-50 kids getting those 3.5 GPA grades we all hear about. My goal is to raise the GPA higher, get AP/Honors courses in and do well In them, and get to D1 level in football. It should then be a walk in the park once I do all of this. If anyone has other suggestions, feel free to say them.</p>
<p>If you are truly good at football as you have stated, then you are a shoo in. I was a football player as well. I was as dumb as a dried pine cone on a suburban sidewalk, but now that I have been to Harvard University, I know that I can make a life for myself. Good luck broski! You can join my Harvard Swole Crew once you get in!</p>
<p>Rank isn’t factored into the AI anymore, just GPA, SAT and SAT ii .Football recruits in 4 AI bands - If they bring on 30 players, it’ll be distributed along the lines of 8-13-7-2. With 8 players being within 1 SD of the mean, down to 2 band 1 players that can be basically anywhere off the floor of 176 (probably the above poster’s band) Bottom line, if you’re scoring 700’s on your SAT you’ll be fine as a football recruit - but you need to be a solid D1 caliber football player. (Ravens fullback and Bill’s punter are both Harvard '14 - looked good in preseason last night)</p>
<p>lol, well thank you for the kind words zhango, there a quite rare on this forum. One question for you friend, how is the practice/class schedule over there, as I know that the school has to give you time to study etc, however is practice significantly less than what I usually except in high school?</p>
<p>"is practice significantly less than what I usually except in high school? " </p>
<p>Paul, any D1 program, be it 'bama or Harvard is limited by the NCAA to 20 hours per week, excluding training room time, travel, etc. And Harvard, like every other program, takes every minute they’re allowed. So you’re looking at 4-5 hours out of your day for Harvard football. </p>
<p>@varska - And as was made abundantly clear in the hearings regarding the unionization of Northwestern players and confirmed by players from nearly every scholarship program out there, 40-50 hours a week is closer to the truth. To say there is fudging going on is to put it mildly. Now Harvard, being a non-athletic scholarship school, might be different, I don’t know. I don’t want to get into a discussion here about how much is actually on the field versus watching film, weight training and other types of training (yes, I did see you specifically said excluding that, but those things are real time and the coaches definitely demand it), team meetings, etc. If it is required time that takes away from studying for class and ones social life, then it counts. Weekends definitely count in these big time programs. For Harvard football, it would be wise to talk to current and recently graduated players before concluding they stick to the 20 hour per week rules.</p>
<p>@fallenchemist - you’re absolutely right. The non-countable hours are significant. I just wanted to let the OP know that the time commitment for D1 football, even at Harvard, will likely exceed anything he’s used to in HS.</p>
<p>^ Actually I want to have that huge time commitment, with lifting, film etc. My main fear before reading this is that we don’t get practice as we need to study more, however now my fears are quenched. varska and fellenchemist, could you tell me everything that you know about what I can expect, so I can better prepare myself.</p>
Bottom line, if you’re scoring 700’s on your SAT you’ll be fine as a football recruit - but you need to be a solid D1 caliber football player. (Ravens fullback and Bill’s punter are both Harvard '14 - looked good in preseason last night)</p>