Posted on 05/16/2019 6:36:06 PM PDT by reaganaut1
For decades, the College Board defended the SAT, which it writes and administers, against charges that the test gives an unfair advantage to middle-class white students. No longer. Under relentless pressure from the racial-preferences lobby, the Board has now caved to the anti-meritocratic ideology of diversity. The Board will calculate for each SAT-taker an adversity score that purports to measure a students socioeconomic position, according to the Wall Street Journal. Colleges can use this adversity index to boost the admissions ranking of allegedly disadvantaged students who otherwise would score too poorly to be considered for admission.
Advocates of this change claim that it is not about race. That is a fiction. In fact, the SAT adversity score is simply the latest response on the part of mainstream institutions to the seeming intractability of the racial academic-achievement gap. If that gap did not exist, the entire discourse about diversity would evaporate overnight. The average white score on the SAT (1,123 out of a possible 1,600) is 177 points higher than the average black score (946), approximately a standard deviation of difference. This gap has persisted for decades. It is not explained by socioeconomic disparities. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education reported in 1998 that white students from households with incomes of $10,000 or less score better on the SAT than black students from households with incomes of $80,000 to $100,000. In 2015, students with family incomes of $20,000 or less (a category that includes all racial groups) scored higher on average on the math SAT than the average math score of black students from all income levels. The University of California has calculated that race predicts SAT scores better than class.
Those who rail against white privilege as a determinant of academic achievement have a nagging problem: Asians.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
Just watched Tucker Carlson & Heather MacDonald and it’s explained very well. (imho)
go to 9:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvzF_f_flxs
It’s only a few minutes.
I thought “Female” was a big name because they screwed up filling out the birth certificate.
"I have a dream that one day all black little boys and girls won't be judged by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin! Suck it honkeys!"
The anti-privilege warriors are everywhere.
Also, see: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3749860/posts
Macron, a Star Graduate of Frances Elite School, Wants to Close Its Doors
ENA was designed as a meritocracy to open better opportunities to all students regardless of their background...
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.
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education reported in 1998 that white students from households with incomes of $10,000 or less score better on the SAT than black students from households with incomes of $80,000 to $100,000.
Thanks reaganaut1.
you left out nosmo king
The new system knocks out hard working two parent Asian families and Jewish families that don’t have grandparents, parents etc to give them ‘legacy’ standing.
Also knocks out lots of middle class white kids with two parents both working to help their kids get a good start.
I won’t go into who benefits too much but at the top of that list are white progressive children of ‘elites’....
Un-f***ing-believable!
And: "Adversity Score" = "extra points for being stupid."
Regards,
61. Fu’Quan
62. Irridescenisha
Adversity scores alone won’t fix the problem. They ALSO need Privilege deductions where whites and asians have points removed from their scores based on high family income, having 2 parents, being born IN wedlock, living in low crime areas, NOT having a police record, having a tutor, taking SAT prep classes, etc.
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