Since the mid 1980's, Ivy League schools have followed a common athletic recruiting standard to ensure that member schools do not lower academic standards substantially to recruit desired athletes. The Ivies adopted the Academic Index (AI) measure to monitor that member schools complied with the standards. To maintain minimum standards, the Ivies adjusted the academic floor for AI from 171 to 176 in 2011. 176 translates roughly to a B student (3.0 out of 4.0) and a SAT of 1140 on the old scale and 1710 on the new scale. The actual algorithm used to calculated the AI is more complicated - a more detailed version was published in the NY Times. The AI metric is also used by the Ivies for general admissions candidate scoring according to Michele Hernandez (A is for Admissions).
Ivy League schools prohibit its members from offering athletic scholarships to any of its students. However, Ivies are nevertheless able to recruit top athletes because their need based scholarships often compare favorably to athletic scholarships offered by other colleges. Moreover there is no limit to the number of scholarships that an Ivy coach can hand out which can handicap some other college coaches in the recruiting game.
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