The College Board has revealed that it will calculate an “adversity score” for every student taking the SAT. According to the, it’s an attempt to address evidence that children of wealthy, college-educated parents score higher on the SAT than less privileged students. At least in theory, the adjusted scores will help colleges more objectively evaluate the academic abilities of all applicants.
This is not the first time the College Board has “adjusted” SAT scores based on student backgrounds. According to thereporting, about 20 years ago it experimented with what it called a “Strivers” program that used socioeconomic variables – and at school’s discretion, race - to predict SAT scores. Students whose actual scores exceeded their predicted scores by more than 200 points were dubbed “strivers.
He’s right, but that doesn’t mean that adversity scores will solve the problem. Here are four reasons why we should be skeptical. At a time when standardized testing is under increased scrutiny and is even being discontinued or minimized as an admission tool by hundreds of colleges, one must wonder whether adversity scores are primarily an attempt to protect the SAT’s market or to promote social mobility. Colleges that are genuinely concerned about the bias built into the tests or the cheating associated with the SAT or the ACT, have a simpler choice: don’t require student to take them.
None of this is about helping minorities. This is purely about attacking white people. Which comes natural to the guy who created it who is a jew
I thought our goal was equality? Fairness for everyone.
Worst idea ever. The only benefit to this news is that it helps the College Board distract the world from their existing scandal.
Many top colleges say they conduct “blind admissions” meaning no financial status taken into consideration into admissions. However CollegeBoard just managed to make all these universities lie with their “adversity score” or is it just YaleUniversity ?
Holy shit. Unbelievable. Take any value they had a and lite a fire.
Im actually excited...one more example how the education elite are destroying their relevancy by wiping clean relevancy. Let the disruption of the education industry begin garyvee
Extra points for race or neighborhood? And nobody sees it except the college? Subjective with zero transparency leads to corruption/abuse of the methodology. Try old fashioned merit. States can develop or fund privatized programs that prepare students for standardized testing.
OMG more excuses to not achieve!
If CollegeBoard wasn't so easily corrupt, and the test themselves not full of racial, cultural, class biases. Then there would be no need for adversity scores. Fix that problem not create another.
Wrong side of history, Forbes.
Let’s stop pretending that race is the beginning and end.
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