Was the Academic Index calculation revised this year?

rhandco
Tue, 28 May 2013 22:20:26 +0000

GPA varies widely among schools. My son’s HS has a very strange system, so we set up a spreadsheet to calculate his “normal” unweighted GPA. His school does not offer class rank however.

This is what I found about AI on CC:
[Academic Index3 - College Confidential](http://www.collegeconfidential.com/academic_index3.htm)

I assume the caveat about AI ranking is for the general student population. I know that above 176 (I think) is minimum acceptable for student-athletes. But if my son has 190 AI, is that still very rare to get recruited?

The article called: “A Rare Glimpse Inside the Ivy League’s Academic Index” on the NYT website from January 2012 has some interesting information.