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.
“I’m guessing my sons will actually have points DEDUCTED from their scores due to their immense “privilege”. “
If colleges want to change admissions due to a variety of different factors, that is up to them - but the SAT is supposed to bring utter objectivity to the table across the entire nation, all income classes, all types of schools, all races, etc. It is the same test on any given date (though the order of the questions differs to make cheating harder), and EVERYONE is graded on the same scale. That is the whole REASON why the SAT was created in the first place - so that the grade inflation or teacher favoritism at one school wouldn’t be allowed to give a false advantage to that student or those students.
Sue the bastards. I know that I will (my daughter is finishing her junior year in HS now, and will take her first SAT pretty soon). Screw these people - this is outright discrimination, and we know this because they won’t tell us how they are calculating this score, or how/if it will affect the real SAT score.