What's your Academic Index?

2by2
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:52:40 +0000

“In A is for Admission, Michelle Hernandez describes Dartmouth’s procedure for turning the AI into a one-to-nine ranking. (Need to pick up this valuable reference? Here’s its Amazon listing.) We aren’t going to reproduce her complete explanation here, but the key point that Hernandez makes is that there is a high level of correlation between the AI rank and acceptance rates. Applicants with 8 and 9 rankings were accepted at over 90%. Half of the 6-ranked applicants were accepted, while a mere 11% of the 4-ranked were admitted. Virtually no students with a 1 ranking were admitted”

This is from CC’s site. It says applicant with an 8 or 9 were accepted at over 90%- now where MH got her numbers I don’t know- and it does say ivy league not HPY so that puts a little different spin on it.