<p>It seems odd to me that almost nobody on CC mentions their AI when they discuss their chances and such... especially when CC actually has an AI</a> calculator feature! </p>
<p>It just seems somewhat odd. That's all. </p>
<p>Who here knows their AI? Is there a reason that nobody takes it into account when discussing chances and college admissions?</p>
<p>I think it's just that even though the AI is a good rough indicator, details about individual scores/GPA/rank are usually more helpful in assessing admission chances.</p>
<p>Aside from the Ivies, what schools admit to using an AI? Also, what would one postulate the typical AI score would be at some top schools?
Thanks.</p>
<p>wooooooo 234 outta 240</p>
<p>mines not that high sadly</p>
<p>208? 10 characters........</p>
<p>haha 209, yea 11% chance!</p>
<p>I got a 219... I think that the biggest problem is my class rank because I'm 740+ in all the test scores...</p>
<p>232 apparently</p>
<p>i think its just easier to look at someone's SAT scores and rank/gpa and gauge chances from that, since that's all AI is based off of.</p>
<p>I think of it as a bit of a joke. To determine someone's chances even roughly for an Ivy is virtually impossible without ANY idea of the applicant's writing abilities, how well he interviews, how many classes were weighted, whether he went to a non-ranking public school (entered GPA into the AI calculator) or a top private school, or unique circumstances. These aren't just small parts of the admissions process- they are often huge parts. And a lot of Ivy applicants are going to have a lot in these fields. If people are asking for chances on CC, a lot more is going to be needed than an AI score, and telling the components of one's AI score is going to be more useful than just saying the score. </p>
<p>I don't have any problems with the AI, but I don't see why anyone would refer to it while posting on CC: it takes in virtually no information and can therefore give virtually none. :)</p>
<p>Yeah. The AI processes the details and reduces them to a single number--which I understand is only minimally useful. However, there is some merit in a processed form of scores and rank; simplicity, for instance. Convenience. The feeling of having an answer when you plug in what you have and the calculator spits out a nice, clean, one-digit number that evaluates how competitive your rank and scores are. </p>
<p>What seems funny to me is that though it is a tool that colleges use in admissions to some extent, it isn't a tool that people on CC take into account when discussing admissions. It seems like many CCers have researched college admissions pretty exhaustively and it should have come up in some way, shape or form. People never talk about "trying to raise my AI" to improve chances at top colleges... </p>
<p>The AI makes more sense in A is for Admission, of course. The author discusses its uses and the extent of its impact on admissions. That was an interesting book for me when I was doing my college applications. I didn't come to CC for advice on my applications; I read actual books by actual [former] admissions officers. :p</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> Ehhh... well, carry on with the discussion. If there is one.</p>
<p>CCers develop a natural ability to gauge the AI without actually using the formula. It's easy for a person to look at the rank, gpa, and SAT scores of a person and gauge basic chances. AI, being the quantity derived from these numbers, is therefore redundant.</p>
<p>Isn't the AI practically outdated, at least I thought it's rarely used. After all, you don't need a score based on other values to tell you that an applicant is strong or weak.</p>
<p>^^If you are ad officer and reading 10,000 files the AI number makes sense. It quickly gives you a number so you know what to expect when you read a file, but from what I read the number can be bumped up or down by the ad officer after reading the file. The A for Admission book says nowaday the school can quickly produce these numbers which were only used at one time for athletes.</p>
<p>^It's really only used at large, state schools.</p>
<p>No, in the A for Admission, it says for Ivies only. The person that wrote the book she was working at Dartmouth.</p>