SAT’s New ‘Adversity Score’ Will Take Students’ Hardships Into Account

[Flash]

SAT’s New ‘Adversity Score’ Will Take Students’ Hardships Into Account

"The company announced on Thursday that it will include a new rating, which is widely being referred to as an “adversity score,” of between 1 and 100 on students’ test results. An average score is 50, and higher numbers mean more disadvantage. The score will be calculated using 15 factors, including the relative quality of the student’s high school and the crime rate and poverty level of the student’s neighborhood."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/us/sat-score.html

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No, just their zip codes.

[StoneByStone]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/us/co...rnd/index.html

[Flash]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/us/co...rnd/index.html

That didn't last long.The original article was from May, 2019.

[Bobb]

If a negger can't read, going to a colored high school mitigates his illiteracy? Good grades and class rank are easier to get at bad high schools. So, the SAT organization is helping neggers double dip in the preferences pool. Not to mention that colored high school gets a lot more money from whites than white high schools.

Neggers are parsites.

[StoneByStone]

If a negger can't read, going to a colored high school mitigates his illiteracy? Good grades and class rank are easier to get at bad high schools. So, the SAT organization is helping neggers double dip in the preferences pool. Not to mention that colored high school gets a lot more money from whites than white high schools.

Neggers are parsites.

But the dEmS aRe ThE rEaL rAcIsTs, right?

[cancel2 2022]

Yet here they are saying that idea has been abandoned??

[CFM]

That didn't last long.The original article was from May, 2019.

What's sad is that it lasted as long as it did.

[CFM]

But the dEmS aRe ThE rEaL rAcIsTs, right?

What's racist about facts? Only a racist such as yourself would think so.

[Flash]

What's sad is that it lasted as long as it did.

We've already gotten a new proposal:

A Simple Way to Equalize the Ivies? Give Others the Legacy SAT Bonus

"A new paper from a team of prominent economists says that a simple strategy — an SAT “bonus” of 64 to 160 points, like that effectively seen in legacy admissions — would go a long way toward decreasing economic segregation in American higher education, and give a boost to social mobility through the generations."



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/u...vy-league.html

[cawacko]

We've already gotten a new proposal:

A Simple Way to Equalize the Ivies? Give Others the Legacy SAT Bonus

"A new paper from a team of prominent economists says that a simple strategy — an SAT “bonus” of 64 to 160 points, like that effectively seen in legacy admissions — would go a long way toward decreasing economic segregation in American higher education, and give a boost to social mobility through the generations."



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/u...vy-league.html

Interesting. Admissions to these elites schools really are a zero sum game. There isn't a growing of the pie so to speak where more students can get in. At 'SC for instance there are some who complain we let too many people in which will prevent us from ever advancing in the rankings past the 22-25 range where we are now.

J.D. Vance wrote about his experience at Yale Law School coming from his economic background and how out of place he was. Not an easy thing when you're talking the elite of the elite.

[Bobb]

But the dEmS aRe ThE rEaL rAcIsTs, right?

Yes, Dems treat people according to the color of their skin. I don't.

[StoneByStone]

Yes, Dems treat people according to the color of their skin. I don't.

Interesting.

[Flash]

Interesting. Admissions to these elites schools really are a zero sum game. There isn't a growing of the pie so to speak where more students can get in. At 'SC for instance there are some who complain we let too many people in which will prevent us from ever advancing in the rankings past the 22-25 range where we are now.

J.D. Vance wrote about his experience at Yale Law School coming from his economic background and how out of place he was. Not an easy thing when you're talking the elite of the elite.

A person can go to a much less selective school and still be upwardly mobile and successful. Most colleges are begging for students. Ivy League is more prestige but we don't all need to be high status people (especially just because of the school we attended).

[cawacko]

A person can go to a much less selective school and still be upwardly mobile and successful. Most colleges are begging for students. Ivy League is more prestige but we don't all need to be high status people (especially just because of the school we attended).

No question and agree completely. The reality though is elite schools really do open doors for you which is why parents will often do everything they can to get their kids into them and pay whatever it costs. The networking, alumni, virtue signaling on your resume so to speak etc. are worth it.

I’ll admit I’ve called ‘SC alums up who I do not know and introduce my myself as a Trojan grad and it’s helped me out.

Of course going to a top school is no guarantee of future success nor does not going to a top school mean you can’t be successful. But all things being equal there’s a reason people pay what they do to go to these top schools.