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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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.
Yeah, I want a doctor that graduates from one of those schools.
Yeah, I want a doctor that graduates from one of those schools.
People that have the skills will succeed no mater what. People that don’t have the sills will fail no matter what.
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.
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.
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.
Oh, and what if the test-takers were universally to lie? What would that do to the credibility of the "adversity score?"
For many degrees, that time arrived decades ago.
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.
The louder they whine and moan, the higher the score?
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