Posted on 05/19/2019 6:25:54 AM PDT by reaganaut1
We want to make sure students, families, educators, and admissions officers have information about what data is included in the Environmental Context Dashboard and where the data comes from. The robust data included in the Dashboard shines a light on students who have demonstrated resourcefulness to overcome challenges and achieve more with less.
The Dashboard has three components:
SAT scores in context: Student’s SAT scores can be seen within the context of the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile of SAT scores from the student’s high school (3-year average). The SAT score is the only piece of student-specific information admissions officers see in the Dashboard.
Information on the high school: Including senior class size; percentage of students who meet federal eligibility criteria for free and reduced-price lunch; rurality/urbanicity; and average first-year SAT score of colleges students from that high school attend, the percentage of seniors taking an AP Exam, average number of AP Exams taken, average AP score from that high school, and the number of unique AP Exams administered at that high school (3-year average).
Contextual data on the neighborhood and high school environment: The context data includes two measures—neighborhood and high school environment—calculated using data drawn from a combination of publicly available sources (e.g., NCES and U.S. Census Bureau), and aggregated College Board data
(Excerpt) Read more at professionals.collegeboard.org ...
No word on how they will penalize homeschooled students.
No, SAT scores will be reported as before, with no adjustment for “adversity”. The Adversity Score is a separate score that is reported only to admissions offices.
Don’t tell me, let me guess. If you’re white, you have no adversity claim.
I think this is a “screw you” to the Asians who are suing. I give liberals credit for fighting. Conservatives seem to accept whatever courts or government says.
The one curious thing is that somewhere out there....there’s a database which has your zip code, and identifies adverse conditions. Seems like your credit card companies, banks, and insurance agencies would like to share in that data as well.
The idea of “merit” is condescending according to Pelosi and her fellow travelers on the College Board.
Part of the package is how the student compares to other students at his high school.
I knew a guy, very smart black man, who went off for his masters. He went to a very selective college where, although he was smart, most of his classmates were much smarter. It was such a large re-adjustment for his ego that he wound up dropping out and being very bitter.
Being the smartest kid in a poor-performing school means that you didn’t have to work hard to get good grades, and didn’t have to compete with smarter kids. I could see it as having a negative correlation with academic success.
It would make sense for the admissions officer to ALSO have statistics on what percentage of past students with similar characteristics failed to make it at the college, but that would not help their agenda.
Adversity = Diversity
Just another approach to affirmative action.
“Being the smartest kid in a poor-performing school means that you didn’t have to work hard to get good grades, and didn’t have to compete with smarter kids. I could see it as having a negative correlation with academic success.”
I saw this happen to kids in college, white and black, and it’s a terrible thing to watch. No amount of work can really fix it in “remedial”(?) courses.
This is nothing more than a masquerated form of affirmative action, just like diversity.
At CalTech half of the class is below the class average in intelligence, despite the fact that the students are drawn from the top one percent of high school students. Many experience problems adjusting to just how competitive the environment is. Most of these are students who have never experienced being other than the top student.
“At CalTech half of the class is below the class average in intelligence,”
At ANY university, “half of the class is below the class average in intelligence,”
(actually, below the Class Median score)
:-)
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