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However, certain sports receive more AI scrutiny than others. For instance, in the top three most recruited sports of football, men’s hockey and men’s basketball, there are “special institutional controls” designed to ensure that no Ivy school cheats the system for the sake of raw athletic talent...
...days, there were rumors that one school admitted someone who was way below standards just to make a team better,” says Fitzsimmons. “The AI system was put in place to hold member institutions accountable...
...each class of recruits for certain sports, as well as across the entire recruiting class in the aggregate, the average AI index must fall within one standard deviation of the AI scores of the rest of the College. Though Fitzsimmons could not release Harvard’s AI index for any particular class year, he did mention that all of Harvard’s athletes fall well within one standard deviation (in other words, a 16 to 17 percent fluctuation) of the total student body...
...football, for instance, there is a procedure named “banding” that is used to ensure that all ranges of AI scores have proportionate representation. Instead of averaging across the entire football recruiting class, Ivy schools band individuals with similar scores together and consider them as a group instead of separately. This ensures, for instance, that five extemely high AI scorers aren’t used to offset the average of having five really low AI scorers...
...addition, there is a “presumptive floor” set by the League to strongly discourage schools to admit anyone below a certain AI score regardless of athletic prowess. This figure is currently 169, and varies depending on how frequently the SAT is recentered or refigured...