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  • Yet Another Bad Admissions Idea. The College Board’s “Landscape” tool is terrible news for admissions fairness.

    06/22/2024 12:09:38 PM PDT · by karpov · 12 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | June 20, 2024 | Graham Hillard
    Leigh made a 34 on the ACT. Bill made a 23. Which of the two do you want attending your academically selective college? According to a traditional or merit-based admissions standard, the answer is almost certainly Leigh, whose aptitude and prior learning mark her as the stronger candidate by far. Yet, following the logic of Landscape, the College Board’s quietly insidious “contextualization” resource, admissions officers may find themselves shunting Leigh aside in Bill’s favor. Developed in 2018 and broadly available since 2020, Landscape is a free admissions dashboard that allows decisionmakers to “consider each student within the context of where...