SAT to use 'adversity score' for students applying to college
The College Board, which oversees the SAT exam used by most U.S. colleges during the admissions process, plans to introduce an “adversity score” which takes into consideration the social and economic background of every student. "
The new adversity score is being calculated using 15 factors, including the crime rate and poverty level from the student's high school and neighborhood, The Wall Street Journal first reported.
Students won't be privy to their scores but colleges and universities will see them when reviewing applications."
"So far, 50 colleges have used it in making a decision about a prospective student's chances. The College Board plans to expand that to 150 higher learning institutions in the fall. The goal is to use it broadly by 2021."
"Yale University is one of the schools that has used adversity scores. The Connecticut-based Ivy has pushed to increase socioeconomic diversity in recent years and has almost doubled the number of low-income students.
"This (adversity score) is literally affecting every application we look at," Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale, told WSJ. "It has been a part of the success story to help diversity our freshman class." "
Doesn't Merit and hard work count for anything anymore. Of the 50 colleges using the "Adversity Score" how many admitted students that would not have been accepted without the score?
The new adversity score is being calculated using 15 factors, including the crime rate and poverty level from the student's high school and neighborhood, The Wall Street Journal first reported.
Students won't be privy to their scores but colleges and universities will see them when reviewing applications."
"So far, 50 colleges have used it in making a decision about a prospective student's chances. The College Board plans to expand that to 150 higher learning institutions in the fall. The goal is to use it broadly by 2021."
"Yale University is one of the schools that has used adversity scores. The Connecticut-based Ivy has pushed to increase socioeconomic diversity in recent years and has almost doubled the number of low-income students.
"This (adversity score) is literally affecting every application we look at," Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale, told WSJ. "It has been a part of the success story to help diversity our freshman class." "
Doesn't Merit and hard work count for anything anymore. Of the 50 colleges using the "Adversity Score" how many admitted students that would not have been accepted without the score?
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Prager's a good idea, but he wants to do something math/comp sci-related - which he's really good at. I cringe every time he says MIT or Cal-Tech because they have excellent programs in the areas he wants to pursue but very corrosive atmospheres. The one thing I do have going for me is that I'm too poor (and dang-it if I had to work while going to school so do my kids!) to try to pay for him to go anywhere and he knows that. So unless they offer him a full-ride with all the bells and whistles, he's going to have to go somewhere a little more realistic.
Don’t support Trump because making America Great again is not for everyone.
Keep him away from the liberal brainwashing.
You can judge people on their character.
Much more important for me is the culture people were steeped in as children, and the way they think (or dont think) now.
I wouldnt send my kids to college today. I think one can learn on their own much better, cheaper, and faster than if they waste time in our liberal colleges.
And congratulations on 1520.
Yes, I suppose you could say they have some advantages, because they are in a school district known for excellence, and they come from a long, long line of high-IQ overachievers. Do you suppose that happened by accident? My son and his wife didn't just "accidentally" arrive there. They worked so hard and gave up a lot to get where they are (neither of them has a college degree, but in true AR style, they decided that they would not allow that to matter - you do what you have to do.) And now, to cap their brilliant kids at the knees is unconscionable!
Is this a punishment for the recent scandal where the TV stars paid bribes to get their kids into school? I bet this is part of it, though not all. The rest is pure Bioleninism. But what of the kids and their families who did nothing wrong - they just happen to be in the "wrong" place at the "wrong" time, with brain power that literally will not be stopped.
There will be a huge price to pay for this. Part of the price is that 1) You can't keep a good man down....so you, qhrjk, and people like you and my grandkids will succeed ANYWAY! (Thank goodness for kids like you!) 2) There is going to be an enormous re-evaluation of the quality of Ivy league graduates when industry realizes that these schools are putting out a substandard "product." And the "educators" will stand around scratching their heads, wondering "what went wrong with their brilliant plan."
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