<p>I go to a very competitive small private school in the heart of the silicon valley. I have a reasonably high GPA, probably within the top 10 percent. My SAT scores are really really high. </p>
<p>800’s on three SAT II’s
1560 on the SAT </p>
<p>My AI shows up as 230+ when I input exact GPA. My school does not send any sort of rank info to colleges since the class size is so small. </p>
<p>Now I have good EC’s and Essays, but this number seems way to high for me? Is this AI thing bogus?</p>
<p>Ive gotten about 4 B’s in my HS career, so this number seems rather high.</p>
<p>The AI is built for rank rather than GPA so it makes it inaccurate. When I put in mine, I get a 240 if I use GPA, but when I use top 10% decile, I get 228.</p>
<p>Always calculate with rank and then decile if your school doesn’t report rank. I believe MOST schools do send in decile so calculate with that to get a better idea.</p>
<p>Well, I get an AI of 222 if you are something like 5th in a class of 50. (You get 64 for class rank, 80 for the SAT IIs, and 78 for the SAT Is).</p>
<p>The way you compute the CRS (class rank score) is that you take the 5th place, subtract 1 giving a 4, then divide by class of 50. This gives you a .08 score, which rounds up to .0886 and equals 64. The CRS table is here:</p>
<p>An AI score of 222 is nothing to sneeze at. This puts you in the 7th of 9 groups, meaning about 22% to 33% of the applicants will have better ranks and test scores than you, and 67% to 78% will have worse ranks and test scores. Obviously, the ECs, teacher recommendations, essays, majors, legacies, etc. come a lot more into play for someone like you than someone else in determining if you get in. So do well on these and you should get in; don’t do as well and you’ll be at another great college instead of an Ivy league one.</p>
<p>Schools have been known to send information correlating GPA and percentiles in general. Not saying that yours does.</p>
<p>If your school has scattergrams showing GPA/SAT from your students and the colleges they were accepted / rejected at, that will give you at least an indication on which colleges accept a reasonable number of applicants. </p>
<p>However your AI is determined and/or used in an actual admissions situation, it is high enough that your application will be taken seriously. Be sure that the remaining elements under your control (your essays and so on) are as well down as possible. At the hypercompetitive schools, it may come down to whether a student of your particular talents is need to build a class - this year.</p>
<p>You will be looked at against your actual school peers. It is way harder to get into a top college from a highly competitive private school. The AI is useless. I second looking at your school’s scattergrams.</p>