What's your Academic Index?

<p>235 and 9/9</p>

<p>225/8
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<p>My question about this is: how can you compare scores based on weighted GPA, when high schools have all sorts of different schemes for weighting?</p>

<p>234...gahhh!</p>

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234...gahhh!

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What's so bad about 234, lol</p>

<p>no its no bad. i just stressed...that deferment letter is really going to hit home.</p>

<p>So you don't have anything special that will get Yale to accept you?</p>

<p>238 - too bad i've heard it means - um - nothing.</p>

<p>218/6....hope all my non-academic stuff will help haha</p>

<p>238-omfg do colleges really ignore writing section on the SAT?? I don't think this thing is accurate lol although this would benefit me greatly.</p>

<p>^ many colleges don't look at Writing at all. Many do. Just check with the specific college.</p>

<p>I wouldn't be surprised if they used something like this as a basic screening. Those with a 5 or above are treated as very possible admits and those below 5 are probably reviewed for something special- there really is just no way that schools can look with any acuracy at 27,000 applications if they can't prioritize them in some way. At least in my opinion and the point is that 90% of 9 get in and 50% of what did it say 6's? So that probably gives you a baseline- I'd say whether you have a 5 or a 9 - you still better try and LOVE some of your matches!!</p>

<p>I highly doubt a 9 gets 90% chance. Probably a 40% chance or so.</p>

<p>I get that you guys are having fun running the AI on yourselves to see how you stack up. I've been told that the real function of the AI is to make sure that athletes at schools fit academically with the general population. I'm going to take a guess here, but I would assume an AI is calculated for every admitted student, maybe not even until after they're admitted. Stats must be kept to show that recruited athletes match the profile of the non-athlete students. </p>

<p>My earlier post on this thread alludes to the AI bands and the percentages of athletes that must fit into certain bands. Among other things, this serves the purpose of making sure athletes are an academic fit for schools, even schools as academically competitive as Yale. I'd be surprised if AI was used by admissions at the front end of things, except for evaluating athletes, but I could be wrong. I do know that athletes are sometimes asked to retake the SAT as a matter of course, presumably to maximize their AI and not use up a spot in a lower band, if they could actually fit into a higher one.</p>

<p>231.</p>

<p>But the number is meaningless tbh :P</p>

<p>"In A is for Admission, Michelle Hernandez describes Dartmouth's procedure for turning the AI into a one-to-nine ranking. (Need to pick up this valuable reference? Here's its Amazon listing.) We aren't going to reproduce her complete explanation here, but the key point that Hernandez makes is that there is a high level of correlation between the AI rank and acceptance rates. Applicants with 8 and 9 rankings were accepted at over 90%. Half of the 6-ranked applicants were accepted, while a mere 11% of the 4-ranked were admitted. Virtually no students with a 1 ranking were admitted"</p>

<p>This is from CC's site. It says applicant with an 8 or 9 were accepted at over 90%- now where MH got her numbers I don't know- and it does say ivy league not HPY so that puts a little different spin on it.</p>

<p>Thanks 2by2. It would be really interesting to hear from someone who sits at the table in an HYP admissions meeting to know if they really use an AI formula, or if they use a more holistic approach. I know everyone wonders if there's a magical GPA/SAT formula derived "threshold."</p>

<p>hmmm, where do we put wirting scores? I absolutely refuse to accept that Yale disregards them, it's my best section!! </p>

<p>216- high school only ranks by decile, so yeah. And we weight GPA's funny....grr.</p>

<p>Yeah, I read that book too. But that book was published like 5 years ago or something. It's a completely different situation now. Plus, I'm pretty sure the process is both more holistic now and it was probably different for HYP than for the other Ivy Leagues (let's be honest, a school like Cornell, isn't much better than UC Berkeley, but Yale and UC Berkeley cannot even be compared.)</p>

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<p>lol, elitism among elitism.</p>