Academic Index?

mobius911
Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:49:07 +0000

^This is why many schools moved away from class rank.

Typical verbiage: “Our high school has a rigorous college preparatory program; a cumulative ranking based on GPA does not adequately represent a student’s actual achievement. Our school does not rank its students.”

The order of preference for the AI, as described in Hernandez’s book and on which I believe the AI calculator on CC’s home page is based, is first rank and then GPA (weighted or unweighted) if the school doesn’t rank. The class rank point value is also affected by the number of students in the class. A valedictorian genius at a small school gets fewer points than the same person would at a large school.

So if this AI thing is real, there is a strong incentive for high schools to do away with rankings, since the class rank point assignment methodology in the AI is so punitive, as your example illustrates.