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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...
...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...
...student falling below the presumptive floor, an Ivy school must justify the decision to the entire League on the basis of extenuating academic discrepancies or character strengths of the applicant. According to Fitzsimmons, this rarely happens and schools tend to stop considering an applicant if his or her AI score is below the presumptive floor...
Though intentionally vague on the details, Fitzsimmons stresses that it was “a personal qualities case” and that the candidate’s AI score was not representative of actual work done or potential growth because said applicant hailed from a rural area and had transferred schools which affected his class rank. In addition, this particular student showed “reassuring test scores” and “sounded extraordinary...