SAT To Add 'Adversity Score' That Rates Students' Hardships

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SAT To Add 'Adversity Score' That Rates Students' Hardships



Colleges have long been concerned with scoring patterns on the SAT that seem unfavorable to certain socioeconomic groups: Higher scores have been found to correlate with students coming from a higher-income families and having better-educated parents. David Coleman, chief executive of the College Board, has described a trial version of the tool, which has been field-tested by 50 colleges, in recent interviews. The plan to roll it out officially, to 150 schools this year and more broadly in 2020, was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The adversity score would be a number between 1 and 100, with an average student receiving a 50. It would be calculated using 15 factors, like the relative quality of the student's high school and the crime rate and poverty level of the student's home neighborhood. The score would not be reported to the student, only to college officials. "We've got to admit the truth, that wealth inequality has progressed to such a degree that it isn't fair to look at test scores alone," Mr. Coleman recently told The Associated Press. "You must look at them in context of the adversity students face." The new tool could potentially give colleges a way of doing that. But at the same time, it could invite a backlash from more affluent families and from students who do well on the test and worry that their adversity score will put them at a disadvantage.

 

[Starman]

Will students with high "adversity scores" who make it into schools they otherwise wouldn't have succeed there?

 

[JLova]

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Will students with high "adversity scores" who make it into schools they otherwise wouldn't have succeed there?

If I get an 1100, a diversity score of 85, and get accepted to Yale, will I have to take pre-college courses? If so, will those schools make it free?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Will students with high "adversity scores" who make it into schools they otherwise wouldn't have succeed there?

Quite often they will. You should read this article:

T.M. Landry and the Myth of Meritocracy in Education - The Atlantic

It exposes the admissions scams. Numerous kids (mostly minorities from low-income backgrounds with relatively poor school preparation) had their applications falsified by T.M. Landry so that they could get admitted to top-flight colleges like Harvard. You know what the real scandal is? That a lot of those kids with false applications did just fine at those elite schools anyway.

It's something worth chewing on.



SAT doesn't add any predictive value to whether or not students will graduate from college or what grades they will graduate with. It slightly predicts some of the range of freshman grades and that's it. It's basically a measure of wealth and opportunity (your exposure to particular ways of using language and framing logic problems and your degree of test anxiety in such situations or lack thereof) masquerading as an objective measure of value so that rich kids can have an excuse for why they always get in and the poor kids don't.

A high-performing high school student from a shyt background who has shown the ability to work hard and excel in high-level work has a great chance of succeeding at a top-flight college no matter what their SAT score is. Will they have the same chance as a rich kid? Of course not, because the rich kid still has all the same support structures that gave them an advantage in high school. But should they get a shot anyway? That's a debate that we should be having, and SAT score shouldn't have shyt to do with it.

College Board is a for-profit scam that produces shyt tests which don't have anything to do with the real world or college experience.

College President: SAT is part hoax, part fraud

I taught America to beat the SAT. That's how I know it's useless.

Why The SATs Are a Scam, Unless You Can Pay $1,000 an Hour... - ATTN:

The College Admissions System Is a Scam In Itself – Rolling Stone



That's one reason the University of Chicago, one of the best and most selective schools in the country, has already made SAT scores optional. So has Wake Forest, George Washington, Weslayan, Smith, Brandeis, WPI, American, Clark, Bowdoin, Smith, Bates, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Mills, and a dozen or two other schools.

An Ultra-Selective University Just Dropped the ACT/SAT. So What?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

But the history of the SAT itself shows us that numbers can also be used to enforce power systems. The original Scholastic Aptitude Test was invented in 1926 by Carl Brigham, a Princeton alumnus and avowed eugenicist who created the test to uphold aracial caste system. He advanced this theory of standardized testing as a means of upholding racial purity in his book A Study of American Intelligence. The tests, he wrote, would prove the racial superiority of white Americans and prevent “the continued propagation of defective strains in the present population”—chiefly, the “infiltration of white blood into the Negro.”

Brigham grew to regret inventing the SAT, writing in 1930 that SAT test scores don’t measure innate ability passed through genes, but are instead “a composite including schooling, family background, familiarity with English and everything else, relevant and irrelevant.” That sounds shockingly similar to the stance in favor of the adversity index: that exam scores are inseparable from the external contexts bearing down or lifting up students as they receive their education and take the test.

The Problem With the SAT’s Idea of Objectivity

 

[theworldismine13]

White liberals at it again

This will end up just like AA, it will help a few black people and a lot of non black people but black people will be at the receiving end of the backlash

 

[Serious]

White liberals at it again

This will end up just like AA, it will help a few black people and a lot of non black people but black people will be at the receiving end of the backlash

So what's your solution.

 

[ogc163]

White liberals at it again

This will end up just like AA, it will help a few black people and a lot of non black people but black people will be at the receiving end of the backlash

The SAT is not a great predictor of success, but I am not sure what a good alternative would look like.

 

[Thanos]

The SAT is not a great predictor of success, but I am not sure what a good alternative would look like.

I think each uppercrust school should have their own individuals entrance exam instead of this one or two exams. State Colleges are in no need to be picky and private school whatever they want to do should b fine.

 

[theworldismine13]

So what's your solution.

Focus on what the real problem is which is the high school and elementary schools

In now way shape or form does adding an adversity score address the real problem