Football Academic Index/banding

GingerPeach
Thu, 23 May 2013 08:27:46 +0000

I have what is probably a dumb question. I hope you guys will bear with me. I have been looking at this ivy league academic index business and see that it has these four bands, from high (say over 201, I have seen different numbers) to low (minimum 171 or elsewhere I have seen 176). I notice that there are fewer spots for players both on the top band and the bottom band, while the lion’s share of 20+ spots are reserved for the middle two bands.

This seems counterintuitive to me, but say a player improves his test scores or gpa and moves from a middle band to the high band, say from a 190 to a 202. Does this mean there are fewer chances for him to have a recruiting spot? 202 would still be significantly below the statistics for most very well qualified applicants to the Ivy League, so football would have to be part of the equation.

I know there is a logical answer to this that is not jumping out at me just now.