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?
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."
The adversity score seems inevitable in this day and age, but I hope your prediction comes true and they re-evaluate the education system once it fails. I have a feeling they won't...
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.
There is a tv show on Discovery or History channel about folks who have done just that. I'v seen where they have to poop and where they get their milk....
Sarcasm...off
Keep him away from the liberal brainwashing.
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.
Linguistics joke coined by my son: "Pardon me. I just expelled a gluteal frickative..."
I'll let him know about Florida Tech. It's a long ways away, but I can vouch for the program... ;)
And congratulations on 1520.
Information" suit can take care of that.
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.
You can judge people on their character.
The cruelest form of slavery exists when the ignorant slaves are convinced they are free.
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.
Look, regarding this story...the left is obsessed with race. They like squalor. Not much more need be said...
(Thinking not required.)
(This better stay sarcasm.)
https://www.eurthisnthat.com/2018/03/...
Similarly -- imagine the surgeon cutting into you in context of moving through the system while carrying the Diversity Disadvantaged and Marginalized cards.
The dunces that push this nonsense harbor self-hatred somewhere at the base of their values hierarchy.
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.
Don’t support Trump because making America Great again is not for everyone.