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I have heard that if a school does not compute class rank for colleges/universities, then the universities take the GPA and compare it to a table to calculate the possible points out of 80. Won't there be a big difference between the GPA-calculation and the class rank calculation (if it were calculated)? Does the university compensate for this difference in any way?
yeah i used some calculator and my gpa conversion is like 3.7 for a 71 i was like holy ****
then out of the 400 ppl in my class, im probably ranked around average. so that would make it like 60 (i dunno for sure i dont have my rank)
that is a big difference considering schools use like intervals of 5 putting ppl in catagories. so whats with this?
You're probably referring to the Academic Index calculation at Ivy League institutions. It has nothing to do with admissions. The AI scales SAT I, SAT subject tests, and class rank on 20-80 scales and adds them together for a total possible of 240. The only reason for this is that the Ivy League athletic conference has a rule that the rosters for each sport at each school have to be within 1/2 a standard deviation on AI of the average AI of the school's entering class. That means that each Ivy has to compute the AI score for each member of the entering class, but it's only to set the bar for the recruited athletes to clear.
Well, there's a link off the CC front page to an AI calculator on the premise that certain AI scores correlate to certain odds of being admitted, so that's kind of fun. But no, it's apparently not primarily for the benefit of Admissions. Note that the article and calculator linked form the CC page are somewhat dated.
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