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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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To: tcrlaf

This is lawsuit Khan. The College Board, whatever the f that is, is going to start making up social justice points and using them to harm kids applying for college.


61 posted on 05/16/2019 2:56:49 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: tcrlaf

Yeah, I want a doctor that graduates from one of those schools.


62 posted on 05/16/2019 2:59:08 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: tcrlaf

Yeah, I want a doctor that graduates from one of those schools.


63 posted on 05/16/2019 2:59:08 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: tcrlaf

People that have the skills will succeed no mater what. People that don’t have the sills will fail no matter what.


64 posted on 05/16/2019 3:05:28 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: thoughtomator

The least privileged people in our society today, arguably, are the fatherless. What they miss out on can’t be replaced by anything.

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Dead on target.


65 posted on 05/16/2019 3:15:47 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: tcrlaf

This is affirmative action on steroids.

Goodbye, higher education. In another twenty years our universities will be dumbed down to the level of elementary schools.


66 posted on 05/16/2019 3:19:23 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Obadiah

Think these people will ever figure that out? The big problem is that though this will most likely mean more economically disadvantaged applicants being admitted, it does not mean they will be able to succeed. In fact it almost guarantees failure. Which the schools will remedy by offering another slew of remedial classes. Those classes will mean more hiring and a raise in tuition to cover the cost of additional staff and support personnel. That will put college even further out of the means of those economically disadvantaged applicants who are academically qualified.


67 posted on 05/16/2019 3:42:19 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: tcrlaf
Our college admissions boards have devolved into Queen for a Day. How soon before a university degree won't be worth the paper that it is printed on?
68 posted on 05/16/2019 3:49:11 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: tcrlaf
How are they going to know anything about the test-taker's race, economic background, etc. unless the test-taker tells them?

Oh, and what if the test-takers were universally to lie? What would that do to the credibility of the "adversity score?"

69 posted on 05/16/2019 4:23:33 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: jmcenanly

For many degrees, that time arrived decades ago.


70 posted on 05/16/2019 4:42:39 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: tcrlaf

15 different factors including the crime rate and average income level in a student’s neighborhood,

If you need to improve your adversity score to help get you into college just use an address from a low income crime ridden neighborhood. I am sure a new market will open up for just such news.


71 posted on 05/16/2019 6:23:57 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: tcrlaf

The louder they whine and moan, the higher the score?


72 posted on 05/17/2019 3:05:55 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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