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The SAT to assign ‘adversity scores’ for all test takers, per The Wall Street Journal

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The College Board is adding an adversity score to the SAT, which will only be visible to colleges reviewing applications, according to the WSJ report. The score is meant to capture the social and economic background of the test taker. Debates have ensued.

The College Board is adding an adversity score to the SAT, which will only be visible to colleges reviewing applications, according to the WSJ report. The score is meant to capture the social and economic background of the test taker. Debates have ensued.

  1. 16 may.

    The College Board will assign scores to SAT takers to capture their socioeconomic backgrounds, joining a debate over race and class in admissions

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  2. 16 may.

    “SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’, ...calculated using 15 factors including the crime rate and poverty levels from the student’s high school and neighborhood. Students won’t be told the scores, but colleges will see the[m].”

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  3. 16 may.

    SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social and Economic Background

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  4. 16 may.

    We could also just get rid of the SAT because if it’s inherent biases. It’s actually regressing American education.

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  5. 16 may.

    Research actually shows that racism is a top type of adversity so this is 100% wrong: ”The adversity score, by contrast, doesn’t take into account race and is superior because it is steeped in more research”

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  6. 16 may.

    How in the world do you (a) create a formula to determine how much “adversity” a 17-year-old has faced, (b) using only school-level and neighborhood-level data, not personal data, and then (c) hide the formula’s results from the kid?

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  7. 16 may.

    Using broader community data means that the richest white kid and the poorest black/Hispanic kid in a given high school are assigned the same “adversity score”

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  8. 16 may.

    AND not reveal what the factors are that lead to a declaration of disadvantage?

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  9. 16 may.

    This article is from The Wall Street Journal, so the posts in the comment section are pretty predictable. My favorite comment is "merit is officially out the window." 1/2

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  10. 16 may.

    Even after all those parents got caught in Operation Varsity Blues, people still believe that the only thing that has ever mattered has been merit. At the end of the day, it turns out money and coming from a healthy environment was the real affirmative action. 2/2

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  11. 16 may.

    It’s ridiculous and impracticable that they plan to keep this “adversity score” secret.

    Math, verbal, adversity? The SAT plans to assign a score to capture the social and economic background of every student who takes the college-admissions test via
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  12. 16 may.
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    The fascinating problem here is that it penalizes the family that sacrifices to put a child in a better-performing high school and a less dangerous neighborhood. Even though the goal is to get into the best possible college, in a nice neighborhood.

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  13. 16 may.

    I support this both because an adversity score might have gotten me into Harvard and because anything that damages the prestige of getting into Harvard is good.

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  14. 16 may.

    Yale, using an "adversity score," has doubled the number of low-income and first-generation-in-college students to 20%.

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  15. 16 may.

    Important news on the college admissions landscape. WSJ: "The College Board plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the to try to capture their social and economic background..." We'll have more to say about this soon.

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