[7] Entrance to ACI is through a competitive national exam, just like any other high school in Turkey, which students take at the end of their 8th grade year.

These clubs include Model United Nations ("MUN"), International Schools Theatre Association ("ISTA"), Junior Achievement, etc.

ACI's Model United Nations club, which celebrated its 25th year in 2020, consists of 40–80 students and an executive team, who debate on world issues for 6 hours a week in school's famous B4 classroom.

Named American Collegiate Institute Model United Nations (ACIMUN), the first session of this conference was planned to be held in April 2020, but was postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic.

[9] To accomplish its goals of "shows commitment to justice, mutual respect, human rights, ethical behavior, tolerance, and self-discipline" and "participates fully in democratic processes and philanthropic organizations as part of lifelong service to humanity" the ACI offers eight different Social Service Programs, and as stated above, every student is required to participate in one for one year[3] ACI also has a Student Council elected annually by the votes of the students.

The lyrics of the song are:[1] In 2004, in the archives of Pistol Hall, a handwritten document named "Alma Mater" was found.

Although it is not dated, the document there could be the first version of today's school song, "Hail Alma Mater Fair".

She is the elected chairman of ILG since September 2010 and American Collegiate Institute – İzmir Alumni Association.

[10] An alumna of the American Collegiate Institute, Gül Güner Akdoğan studied biochemistry at the University of Geneva.

She was the editor and the president of the Training Session of the Congresses of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies at 2002 and 2005; coordinator of the Problem-based Learning Workshop of the 2004 Congress in Warsaw; and one of the two representatives of the European Federation of Biochemical Societies at the Biochemistry Training Workshop held in Sofia, in October 2008.

Since then, she has organised FEBS Education Workshops in different European countries-Napoca-Cluj (Romania) (2009), Athens (Greece) and Opatija (Croatia) (2010), Tallinn (Estonia), Bratislava (Slovakia), and Ljubljana (Slovenia) (2011); İzmir, Yerevan (Armenia), and Cambridge (UK) (2012); Gdańsk, Tbilisi, and Sofia (2013).

She is also a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education published in the USA.

[12] In 1996, Baris Attila graduated from ACI and then studied in Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey and received his B.F.A there.

He began his career at Miramax Films and continued to work for the motion picture industry in Los Angeles.

[14] Janet Akyuz Mattei was a Turkish-American astronomer who directed the American Association of Variable Star Observers for years.

Efe Cakarel is a Turkish entrepreneur, founder and CEO of MUBI, a global streaming platform.