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...determining whether a high-school recruit is qualified to attend college in the Ivy League is through the Academic Index (AI)--which converts class rank, SAT scores and grades into a sum which is supposed to reflect a student's academic aptitude. If a score is above the AI cutoff point--161--the athlete is qualified for admission. If the score falls short, even by a single point, then the athlete...
...opened a four-week run in February at the R.S.C.'s home in Stratford-upon-Avon. The show was rewritten almost nightly; special effects misfired disastrously; one of the two leads quit. Problems continued when it moved to New York City, and the opening was postponed beyond the cutoff for Tony nominations, undercutting the marketing strategy...
Most coaches adhere strictly to the index, so there is little hope of admission to one of the Ivies for a student-athlete who falls just under the cutoff point...
Another problem with the index is that it applies only to athletes. A talented musician or the child of an alumnus who falls slightly below the cutoff point still has a good chance of being admitted to an Ivy school, but a talented athlete with the same scores cannot. According to Cingiser, there have been times when basketball players who fell below the cutoff point could not be recruited by Brown even though they would have been admitted if they weren't athletes...
Cingiser himself, who was one of the finest basketball players in Brown history while maintaining a respectable level of academic success, noted that he would have fallen under the cutoff point if the Index had been in effect when he applied to college...