“Adversity scores” are nothing more than a backup plan for the eventual court decisions that eradicate racial preferences in college admissions.
One hopes that affirmative action is on its last legs, but several times now justices we thought were opposed to AA changed their views at the last minute when the question was directly presented and they were the swing vote. The cries of “Racist! Your legacy will be nothing if you do this!” from the Left have worked several times. Unless Trump is able to get one more justice on there to act as a buffer, I’m not convinced that they won’t work again.