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...article entitled, “For Love of the Game,” unmasks the Academic Index (AI), a shockingly imprecise formula that the Ivy League uses to make sure recruits aren’t too stupid. The writer shows how a valedictorian with a 1350 SAT and a highest SAT II of 750 would have an AI of 225 (the AI is calculated by assigning a score of one through 80 to the highest SAT I score, the highest SAT II score and class rank). He mentions, casually, that the Ivy League threshold for athletes is 169, but doesn?...
...general, though, the impression is that AI scores really aren’t a problem when it comes to the types of students Harvard attracts. Coach Sullivan points out that no player for Harvard currently is below a 180 AI score and that most are well over 200. As further proof of Harvard’s commitment to academic excellence, Sullivan notes that Harvard has had the highest AI average for men’s basketball in the League in recent memory...
Harvard’s ability to recruit quality athletes who are also intelligent and capable students stems from the recruiting process itself. Harvard football, according to Head Coach Tim Murphy, also has the highest AI average for recruits of any Ivy school. His positional coaches are responsible to covering one-sixth of the country and all together the program considers over 2000 applicants...
Despite this seemingly large number of prospective students, Murphy points to the Ivy-best AI index as proof that “Harvard Football has the smallest pool of football recruits in the nation because we have the highest academic standards in the nation...
...adjust and still contribute to his or her peers and members of the Harvard community?” According to Scalise and Fitzsimmons, every athlete that is recruited to Harvard must past the “broken leg” test as a final hurdle to admission, regardless of AI score...