<p>3togo - the AI band system is alive and well but it’s exclusive to football. Individual teams will compile their team-wide AIs. This is from one of the NY Times articles:</p>
<p>" In a response to a commissioned report on Brown athletics issued this year, the university’s president, Ruth J. Simmons, said that for the four most recent admissions classes throughout the league, Brown had seven sports with average A.I.’s under 200; Dartmouth and Penn had 5; Columbia 3; Yale 1; and Harvard and Princeton none. Simmons did not mention Cornell in her written response."</p>
<p>And of course the AI of the overall population of athletes has to be within 1 standard deviation of the AI of the student body as a whole. </p>
<p>So what does a 200 AI look like? It’s about 670 per section on the SAT and a 3.0 GPA. </p>
<p>Now fourtops was talking about posts he’d read about a Harvard basketball recruit with a low AI who was balanced by a higher AI recruit. Yeah, that happens. A kid isn’t getting in under 176 (540 per section sat, 3.0 GPA), but a coach will occasionally go after a top national recruit near that AI floor and have to balance it out, so it happens.</p>