Why does nobody discuss their Academic Index?

Anniushka
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:42:18 +0000

Yeah. The AI processes the details and reduces them to a single number–which I understand is only minimally useful. However, there is some merit in a processed form of scores and rank; simplicity, for instance. Convenience. The feeling of having an answer when you plug in what you have and the calculator spits out a nice, clean, one-digit number that evaluates how competitive your rank and scores are.

What seems funny to me is that though it is a tool that colleges use in admissions to some extent, it isn’t a tool that people on CC take into account when discussing admissions. It seems like many CCers have researched college admissions pretty exhaustively and it should have come up in some way, shape or form. People never talk about “trying to raise my AI” to improve chances at top colleges…

The AI makes more sense in A is for Admission, of course. The author discusses its uses and the extent of its impact on admissions. That was an interesting book for me when I was doing my college applications. I didn’t come to CC for advice on my applications; I read actual books by actual [former] admissions officers. :p

sigh Ehhh… well, carry on with the discussion. If there is one.