What's your Academic Index?

riverrunner
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:24:47 +0000

I get that you guys are having fun running the AI on yourselves to see how you stack up. I’ve been told that the real function of the AI is to make sure that athletes at schools fit academically with the general population. I’m going to take a guess here, but I would assume an AI is calculated for every admitted student, maybe not even until after they’re admitted. Stats must be kept to show that recruited athletes match the profile of the non-athlete students.

My earlier post on this thread alludes to the AI bands and the percentages of athletes that must fit into certain bands. Among other things, this serves the purpose of making sure athletes are an academic fit for schools, even schools as academically competitive as Yale. I’d be surprised if AI was used by admissions at the front end of things, except for evaluating athletes, but I could be wrong. I do know that athletes are sometimes asked to retake the SAT as a matter of course, presumably to maximize their AI and not use up a spot in a lower band, if they could actually fit into a higher one.