Face it. America has dumbed down considerably over the last fifty years.
Yes let us lower the bar to get into college rather then raise the abilities of the people trying to get in! That works so well!
The CEO of College Board, David Coleman, who is pushing this nonsense, is a Dem Party donor.
Tucker hit this one out of the park last night. “Why are we going to punish families who stayed together, had kids they took care of and educated?”
“adversity” score = dumbing-down. Face it. Meritocracy built this country...not mediocrity, not giving consideration to adversity. Idiot “educators” strike again. What incompetent PC nitwits.
Although I disagree with any “extra” points,
where does it state that “race” is calculated into these points?
My wife scored a perfect 800 on the Math portion of the SAT back when it was still difficult (1987). She finished High School in 3 years and then Johns Hopkins in only 3 years. She’s had a long and prosperous engineering career since. I was a piker by comparison but still managed to be an Army officer and pilot for 24 years. We did not come from wealthy families.
Now, my sons, because of their parent’s hard work and success, will be punished. We live in an excellent school district south of Boston in a town that’s probably 98% white. We’re probably in the highest income bracket for their silly formula. I’m guessing my sons will actually have points DEDUCTED from their scores due to their immense “privilege”. We’re living in sad times.
California has been applying these bs factors shortly after Obama became president before accepting students into the UC or State University systems.
In other words, a smart kid with both parents, raised in a good neighborhood, even with a great grade point average and SAT's would not be accepted.
That would be nice for a change.
Race is one thing that is almost never honestly discussed in this nation.
This is the democrat’s way of telling Blacks that they’re too stupid to do what everyone else does.
Blatantly racist on its face.
The biggest reason this country is going down the crapper is because we’re being lead by complete imbeciles with fancy degrees from elite colleges.
Who cares? The SAT is not the standard that it once was. Standardized tests are BS and a scam anyway. The College Board needs to be abolished. In many cases and growing trend is that there is no need for SAT to enroll in many colleges unless one wants to go to highly selective colleges.
Would you want to be operated on by a doctor with a high adversity score and low SAT?
As Asian I truly admire the talent of whites. They can make an art out of bs.
I wonder if this conclusion by the estimable Heather McDonald is, regrettably, also an example of trimming to political correctness. Would it not be more accurate to say that although cultural values are not inherent in any race some races have inherently different cultural values or at least different value levels than others? Would it not also be fair to say that those cultural values closely correlate to "high scores?"
Uniformly, studies tell us that Head Start Program has virtually no positive effect on "underprivileged" children by the time they reach puberty and certainly not by the time they take SAT exams. The evidence is that SAT exam performance plus the virtues of "effort, persistence, and deferred gratification" lead to economic success in life. But the cultural values inculcated by Head Start have virtually no demonstrable effect in improving SAT scores on those who participated in the program.
In other words the evidence is not that these enumerated virtues lead to good SAT scores. In fact, it may well be that the intelligence necessary to score high in SAT examinations is the same kind of intelligence that prompts "effort, persistence, and deferred gratification." Dare we ask, does the low intelligence which leads to low performance on SAT exams also produce the culture of lack of effort, inconstancy, and immediate gratification?
If so, all that this SAT manipulation will accomplish is pushing Head Start to an older age level but with the same ultimate result. Meanwhile, since as the article points out, college admissions is a zero sum game, the harm to society by failing to advance merit will be an "evolutionary" downer.
Political correctness, unlike facts, does care about feelings.
This is the same as those that bought admission for their kids except gamed by the college admissions or the 1950’s tv game show where you win a prize for telling how awful your life is.
colleges need objective test scores to compare students nationally. Subjective information should not be part of that.
My son is a victim of such policy ~ scored 50 pt higher than average Stanford Admissioned student for MBA program, killed his GMAT, and didn’t get a sniff... White, make disadvantage