Grievance Proxies: The College Board plans to introduce a new “adversity score”

City Journal ^ | May 16, 2019 | Heather Mac Donald

[reaganaut1]

For decades, the College Board defended the SAT, which it writes and administers, against charges that the test gives an unfair advantage to middle-class white students. No longer. Under relentless pressure from the racial-preferences lobby, the Board has now caved to the anti-meritocratic ideology of “diversity.” The Board will calculate for each SAT-taker an “adversity score” that purports to measure a student’s socioeconomic position, according to the Wall Street Journal. Colleges can use this adversity index to boost the admissions ranking of allegedly disadvantaged students who otherwise would score too poorly to be considered for admission.

Advocates of this change claim that it is not about race. That is a fiction. In fact, the SAT adversity score is simply the latest response on the part of mainstream institutions to the seeming intractability of the racial academic-achievement gap. If that gap did not exist, the entire discourse about “diversity” would evaporate overnight. The average white score on the SAT (1,123 out of a possible 1,600) is 177 points higher than the average black score (946), approximately a standard deviation of difference. This gap has persisted for decades. It is not explained by socioeconomic disparities. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education reported in 1998 that white students from households with incomes of $10,000 or less score better on the SAT than black students from households with incomes of $80,000 to $100,000. In 2015, students with family incomes of $20,000 or less (a category that includes all racial groups) scored higher on average on the math SAT than the average math score of black students from all income levels. The University of California has calculated that race predicts SAT scores better than class.

Those who rail against “white privilege” as a determinant of academic achievement have a nagging problem: Asians.

[reaganaut1]

Related thread: SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social and Economic Background.

[Oldexpat]

Admissions by zip code. That’l work.

[ex91B10]

These students will be the doctors, engineers, politicans and voters of the future.

We are so screwed.

[dp0622]

LOl

I wonder if Central European and Asian countries die laughing when they see this ####.

[dynachrome]

So, why bother with tests?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wouldn't it be easier to use this chart to award admission points?

Then they could use that score as a multiplier with the following Name Chart score to get your final Admissions Bonus Points.

1. Latifah
2. Shaniqua
3. Latoya
4. Laquisha
5. La'Kisha
6. La'Tanya
7. Rohandra
8. Bon'Quisha
9. Sha'Tanya
10. Toprameneesha
11. La'Quishria
12. Bonifa
13. Shataniana
14. Levondia
15. Bufanaquishria
16. La'Quishraniqua
17. Barbeesha
18. Mo'Nique
19. Abduiniana
20. Fo'Landra
21. Kisha
22. Bon'Qui Qui
23. V'Lanta'la'mana'ma'nisha
24. Sha'Nay Nay
25. Tay Tay
26. Da'Quonde
27. La'Trice
28. Deedra
29. Tramicia
30. De'Lanice
31. Ka'Likatifrianiqua
32. Sha'Londria
33. Sha'Quonda
34. Elephantisha
35. La'Quaysha
36. Guuuuuurrrrrrllllll
37. Qua'Lifriaqui'Sha'Niquia
38. Cornbreesha
39. Congratulashayla
40. Barackisha
41. Obamaniqua
42. Koolaidria
43. Spongebobeeshia
44. Clitorisandrea
45. Fa'Nay Nay
46. Comptonia
47. Harlemisha
48. Beetovenice
49. Watermelondrea
50. Cellularphoniqua
51. Unidastazovamerikaaliqua
52. Alejandrisha
53. King'Kong'Quisha
54. Fri'Chickenisha
55. Colla'Greeniqua
56. Grapedrankisha
57. Africanishaniqua
58. Que'Shayda
59. La'Taniana'Bo'Vanashrianiqualiquanice
60. Courtney

[RetiredTexasVet]

That should save a lot of the Hollywood stars and their spawn large sums of money .... rather than bribing the proctor all they have to do is rent an address in a Progressive ghetto city.

[crosdaddy]

Thanks, I read that list and two thirds through, I was laughing so hard I was crying.

[Drew68]

“Adversity scores” are nothing more than a backup plan for the eventual court decisions that eradicate racial preferences in college admissions.

[LouAvul]

Blax already get points added to their med school entrance exams. I won't see a black doctor for that reason. Maybe he's sharp as a tack and a hard worker. But maybe he just barely made it even with the unfair points added to his tests.

The good black doctor suffers because the system is biased in favor of the bad black doctor.

[Beagle8U]

How’s about we just pick kids randomly and admit them to the finest collages until the spots are taken, and make it free, free, free!

Never mind that you would wind up with a bunch of slow-bus bugger pickers that don’t qualify for a GED, just think how good liberals will think about themselves.

With Harvard and Yale full of slow-bus window lickers they might even field a football team!

[cnsmom]

Just end the testing and go full throttle on bribery.

[lightman]

My 18th century Swiss ancest0rs were oppressed by the Germanic city-states as they headed to America.

What “adversity score” do my descendants receive?

[[[cricktts]]]

All of the oppressed are equal but some of the oppressed are more equal than others.

[lightman]

I need a new keyboard!

[dfwgator]

My 18th century Swiss ancest0rs were oppressed by the Germanic city-states as they headed to America.

My Polish ancestors were subject to the Kulturkampf.

[lightman]

61. A-a

Pronounded “A-dash-a”

Seriously. Currently enrolled in high school.

[lightman]

Correction.

Pronouned “A dash uhh”

[HereInTheHeartland]

That will help us stay ahead of China and India

[Gene Eric]

This BS must be litigated.

[Gene Eric]

>> a nagging problem: Asians.

So do we describe that as “yellow privilege” ?