Academic Index still used?
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Anonymous
| Is this measure still being used by highly selective colleges? |
Anonymous
| Not in the exact format. But there are some other forms of rating as seen in Harvard lawsuit. |
Anonymous
Like what? |
Anonymous
| Anyone on this forum is just guessing. |
Anonymous
Academic rating. You can google it. https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/cfwru7/interesting_statistics_and_info_regarding_harvard/ In the test optional years, I don't know how they do this absent the test score. There may be another format in those years. |
Anonymous
For athletics, yes it is. |
Anonymous
| Are any academic indices known for any other colleges? |
Anonymous
For the class of ‘28 I know a kid at Brown who was asked to retest and one with an offer from Yale who couldn’t score high enough and was dropped. |
Anonymous
At harder to get into colleges, you need really strong academics. At easier to get into colleges, you don’t. |
Anonymous
| Definitely still used for Ivy League athlete admissions |
Anonymous
My DC's coach at her Ivy recently explained to her how they use. Upper class athletes are involved in the recruiting process, and she was asking how he picks and chooses certain students with stellar grades and scores who aren't necessarily the best athletic choices. |
Anonymous
| Is it the Hernandez formula? |
Anonymous
UPenn, at least at some point, used academic index for non-athlete: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/ydb2pb/i_viewed_my_upenn_admissions_file_and/ This guy got 234 out of 240. No one knows how they evaluate it during test optional years. |
Anonymous
| Most schools are reverting back to testing requirements, so there will likely be some form of academic index used. I think this is used for non-athletes too, so not sure I understand why folks are saying it is only used for athletic recruitment. |
Anonymous
| There are new scoring rubrics. Its not academic index. Duke's is out there. |