Academic Prestige

[twimstaxs]

Quote: Originally Posted by Colt45

Academic Prestige is based on how important AP is to the players on your team. So if you recruit a bunch of guys who have "Low" or "Least" etc as their importance for AP, then your AP ranking will go down.

Who told you this? It has to do with graduates.

[nortobc]

It is completely random, as is lifestyle. You have like a %20 chance every year of this going up or down one level.

[nortobc]

Quote: Originally Posted by twimstaxs

Who told you this? It has to do with graduates.

No it doesn't. It is completely random. It was stated by the dev team and there is some percentage every year (can't remember) that it might increase or decrease. Same with campus lifestyle.

[Colt45]

Quote: Originally Posted by twimstaxs

Who told you this? It has to do with graduates.

If it had to do with graduates, every lower tier team would have A+ AP.

[twimstaxs]

Quote: Originally Posted by Colt45

If it had to do with graduates, every lower tier team would have A+ AP.

I thought it had to do with graduating seniors. I must have been confused because when it was talked about that is what I heard. Looks like ill be forcing that Academic Prestige pitch.

[burth179]

Logically thinking about this, why should this rating ever really change?

Why would a school of thousands of students, in a lot of cases 10 of thousands, have their school's academic prestige impacted by what 70 football players are doing?

I could see maybe a movement from A+ to A, or A to A+ or something very minor after like 10 years in or something. As long as it's random I suppose that is sort of believable. But any other movement of this grade is just silly in my opinion.

But I mean Duke and Stanford are always going to be Duke and Stanford when it comes to academics.

[PhantomDoodle]

Quote: Originally Posted by burth179

Logically thinking about this, why should this rating ever really change? Why would a school of thousands of students, in a lot of cases 10 of thousands, have their school's academic prestige impacted by what 70 football players are doing? I could see maybe a movement from A+ to A, or A to A+ or something very minor after like 10 years in or something. As long as it's random I suppose that is sort of believable. But any other movement of this grade is just silly in my opinion. But I mean Duke and Stanford are always going to be Duke and Stanford when it comes to academics.

I couldn't agree more with this statement. I know the designers want to make this a "dynamic" game, but some things are pretty steadfast. I actually accepted the OC job at Stanford over the same job at Arizona State due to many reasons; but Academic Prestige was a big one since it's yet another recruiting tool and there's nothing wrong with having an A+ in another pitch!