Academic Index?

gibby
Tue, 05 Aug 2014 18:00:16 +0000

^^ The AI is a real thing; it’s still mandated by Ivy League Conference rules, see: Before Athletic Recruiting in the Ivy League, Some Math - The New York Times;

However, more than half of all US high schools no longer provide ranking to colleges, so Admissions has been forced to use a student’s GPA instead to calculate the AI when rank is not supplied. And, as some colleges like Yale accept the ACT in lieu of an SAT along with 2 SAT Subject Tests, god only knows how they calculate an AI when a student submits the ACT without subject test scores.

Just as an aside having nothing to do with the AI: Admissions Officers often read all applications from one high school at the same time, so they can easily compare all students from one school. When a high school does not supply rank, files are arranged in GPA rank order so the AO’s can compare the rigor of transcripts. In that way they get a sense of rank, at least for all the student’s applying to their college from a certain high school.