Posted on 05/16/2019 3:10:29 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The College Board plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT to try to capture their social and economic background, jumping into the debate raging over race and class in college admissions.
This new number, called an adversity score by college admissions officers, is calculated using 15 factors including the crime rate and poverty levels from the student’s high school and neighborhood. Students won’t be told the scores, but colleges will see the numbers when reviewing their applications.
Fifty colleges used the score last year as part of a beta test. The College Board plans to expand it to 150 institutions this fall, and then use it broadly the following year.
How colleges consider a student’s race and class in making admissions decisions is hotly contested. Many colleges, including Harvard University, say a diverse student body is part of the educational mission of a school. A lawsuit accusing Harvard of discriminating against Asian-American applicants by holding them to a higher standard is awaiting a judge’s ruling. Lawsuits charging unfair admission practices have also been filed against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of California system.
The College Board, the New York based nonprofit that oversees the SAT, said it has worried about income inequality influencing test results for years. White students scored an average of 177 points higher than black students and 133 points higher than Hispanic students in 2018 results. Asian students scored 100 points higher than white students. The children of wealthy and college-educated parents outperformed their classmates.
“There are a number of amazing students who may have scored less [on the SAT] but have accomplished more,” said David Coleman, chief executive of the College Board.
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Interesting!
This whole scheme sounds like going beyond the typical token BS - they want to include race without explicitly indicating it, and they want to conceal the preferential treatment from the students themselves.
It simply won’t work; surrounding them with students using words they don’t understand quickly lets them know they are in WAY over their heads.
RIP SATs.
pipeline to welfare
Notice how the SJW’s get their way even while Trump is president?
Sounds great! So now I’ll be more likely to see young doctors “of color” who will cause me to wonder “did he/she *really* earn a medical degree or was it a reparations gift?”
Yes I agree.
Same thing for the parents who worked hard to save money for their child's college tuition. The parents who didn't save will get the financial aid, not the savers.
Same thing for the parents who scrimped to buy a house in a good school district where their child could take honors and AP courses. That will hurt his admission chances.
Why are we penalizing hard work, delayed gratification, perseverance, and accomplishment?
“until” “going to”
too late; it’s already happened.
“It’ll never happen. IQ will continue to be an unspeakable 3rd rail, even while our elites add points to those with lower cognitive ability.Expect more Boing 737 Max fiascos, collapsing bridges, etc.And don’t expect great results in surger”
Without question. Idiocracy is a documentary. People accept idiocy as funny and entertaining. Of course, everyone wants everyone else to be perfect geniuses.
We import idiot Indians and call them geniuses because they plagiarize bad code off of google searches, but talk in funny accents we can’t understand. It’s why the 737 MCAS system is a programming disaster.
You should write an expose.
Coded, of course.
The sad thing is that there have been exposes about this subject at Boeing, yet, no one cares. The CFO of Boeing went to jail for bribing a USAF officer. *yawn* People died in two plane crashes, but so long as Dennis, the CEO, came out looking glum and said he was sorry, no one cares.
Boeing is a Democrat company. As long as they pander to the unions, and Boeing has the only engineering union I have ever heard of, no one cares what Boeing does.
Boeing pays millions to blacks to have them tell Boeing that every team must have a black person on it, they call that their “Ethics” program, so no one cares what Boeing does as long as they pay that political bribe.
Hell, people missed the major story of the 737 Max. It wasn’t MCAS. The story is that Boeing changed the flight characteristics of the 737 Max from the previous 737 so radically that the Max should not have been certified as a 737. Who at the FAA did Boeing schmooze to get that certification?
“So now the SAT’s are nothing but used toilet paper and mean nothing. “
It’s been that way for 40 years. They’ve been dumbing down the SAT since 1979. I believe we had an article on FR several years ago showing that the average SAT has fallen to 960. I think you get a 960 for showing up.
Political Correctness has been taken to new heights of insanity...there are signs of imploding...parents are not willing to pay the freight for non-education from nearly illiterate teachers/professors who were "taught" under the same system of teaching down.....
Because if you don't punish those things, you wind up with very visible inequality, and we've promised to do away with that.
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