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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I don't know how I feel about college. I didn't go to an elite college. I think they're good, but they engage strongly in the negative sell. That's where the sales person says, "maybe this product isn't right for you," enticing customers to start arguing the case of what they should buy.
So I like their considering adversity, BUT I approach it like any big purchase. They're telling me the case for why I should buy. Caveat emptor.
Private agencies can compile dossiers on divorces and discords in the family and on troubles and fights in schools attended.
You may say it won't work if the criteria are secret, private agencies can help out here as well.
We have a problem with illegal entry. We have a problem with chain migration. We have a problem that the Cons in Congress who have created this disaster by not legislating rules and laws that make sense. Trump supporters are very welcoming people, that welcome is provided for the people who have good character and values. We want people who want America to be Great not people that want to bring the own native countries failed system here.
Trump supporters are pro woman- pro humanity and will never ever approve of Sharia Law.
Trump and his supporters have 20/20 in their vision.