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College Board Introduces ‘Adversity Score’ to Control for Privilege in Admissions
National Review ^ | 5-16-2019 | Jack Crowe

Posted on 05/16/2019 12:48:11 PM PDT by tcrlaf

The College Board plans to introduce an “adversity score” that will accompany an applicant’s SAT score in order to give college-admissions officers greater insight into how the applicant’s social and economic privilege may have contributed to their academic performance.

The adversity score, which will be made available to colleges but not the students themselves, will reflect 15 different factors including the crime rate and average income level in a student’s neighborhood, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

The new metric is currently being used by 50 colleges and will likely expand to 150 schools this fall.

“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. “We can’t sit on our hands and ignore the disparities of wealth reflected in the SAT.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adversityscore; affirmativeaction; discrimination; sat; stupid
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Middle Class White kids need not apply.
1 posted on 05/16/2019 12:48:11 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

This is intrinsically racist.


2 posted on 05/16/2019 12:51:08 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: tcrlaf

Are there study guides and programs which will help me to boost my score? Are there practice exams?


3 posted on 05/16/2019 12:51:14 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: tcrlaf

Now you can buy privilege for admission.


4 posted on 05/16/2019 12:51:55 PM PDT by Spok
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To: Obadiah

The soft bigotry of low expectations.


5 posted on 05/16/2019 12:53:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: tcrlaf

So, it’s the inverse of Credit Score....................


6 posted on 05/16/2019 12:53:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: tcrlaf

In layman’s terms, it’s called “discrimination”.


7 posted on 05/16/2019 12:53:58 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: tcrlaf

The White kids should just label themselves “black” for purposes of the test.
After all, aren’t we told every day that “race” is just a construct?


8 posted on 05/16/2019 12:54:06 PM PDT by CivilWarguy
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To: tcrlaf

Insanity


9 posted on 05/16/2019 12:54:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Obadiah

Classist.


10 posted on 05/16/2019 12:55:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: tcrlaf

Honestly, if we’re going to have affirmative action type programs, I could live with a socioeconomic measure of a student’s background a whole lot easier than I can live with racial quotas. Not every kid from a minority background is disadvantaged. Some are from families that are quite wealthy. Not every White kid is privileged. Just go to Appalachia some time.


11 posted on 05/16/2019 12:55:24 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: tcrlaf

Asians whose parents propagandized them to strive for excellence and education obviously got unfair advantages and illiterate boys from the hood are surely just as smart and deserving but did not have parents pushing them therefore the illiterates are preferred over the strivers.


12 posted on 05/16/2019 12:56:50 PM PDT by arthurus (bgt)
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To: CivilWarguy

Also get a PO Box in the ‘hood.


13 posted on 05/16/2019 12:57:33 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: tcrlaf

College Board president David Coleman is a frequent Dem Party donor.
I’m sure freepers will not be surprised to hear that.


14 posted on 05/16/2019 12:57:39 PM PDT by CivilWarguy
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To: tcrlaf

If other institutions did this level of demographic detail down to say zip code level to make decisions on whom to serve ,etc, they could be charged with a crime. Banks are not allowed to use demographic data and like below a metropolitan area for decisions that might impact credit availability.


15 posted on 05/16/2019 12:58:10 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: tcrlaf

Can’t wait to see white conservatives complain about how this discriminates against Asians. Take literally any side but your own.


16 posted on 05/16/2019 12:58:52 PM PDT by cdcdawg (If white, western culture makes you feel out of place, THAT IS BECAUSE IT IS NOT YOUR PLACE!)
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To: tcrlaf

So rich liberals will buy up low income houses in all black neighborhoods, not to ever live in of course, but for their kids to use as addresses when taking the SAT.


17 posted on 05/16/2019 12:59:41 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: tcrlaf

Say goodbye to the SAT test and the College Board company. Kids who expect to get high scores won’t take SAT’s, and will instead go to college test companies that don’t shoot them in the back.


18 posted on 05/16/2019 12:59:53 PM PDT by Thud
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Hooray! Now rich and poor, white and black can be equally ignorant. Zimbabwe here we come!!


19 posted on 05/16/2019 1:00:03 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: cdcdawg

I believe as Reagan did, “I don’t care if every seat is taken by an Asian, if they’ve earned the right to be there.”


20 posted on 05/16/2019 1:00:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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