SAT score leveling

[deersniper]

It doesn't matter if you know the answers. Just come from the ghetto and you will get extra points on the SAT. Idiocracy was prophecy.

SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social and Economic Background

The College Board plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT to try to capture their social and economic background, jumping into the debate raging over race and class in college admissions.

www.wsj.com

 

[Maggot]

I identify as underprivileged, poor, illegal, and lazy. Where do I sign up?

 

[Nik H]

Won't really mean too much. Your score on the SAT is still based in your performance on the test. Only thing that changes is admissions officers see some general measure of the environment that the student lived in while in school. That data exists in other databases.

If you do poorly on the SAT, doesn't matter what your socioeconomic position is....you aren't going to a top college unless you are an athlete.

 

[Maggot]

Won't really mean too much. Your score on the SAT is still based in your performance on the test. Only thing that changes is admissions officers see some general measure of the environment that the student lived in while in school. That data exists in other databases.

If you do poorly on the SAT, doesn't matter what your socioeconomic position is....you aren't going to a top college unless you are an athlete.

OR, daddy has a shit ton of money or political power to buy your way in.

As a simple yet irrefutable proof I submit:

 

[buffalowinter]

I love the SECRET part where you don't get to know your score. This will fail quickly as soon as someone finds out their score and sues for libel. Not to mention the subjective value judgetment...is a low score bad? Is a high score good? So many many opportunities for abuse. Any University receiving federal funds should be forbidden from using this score as it discriminarory Per Se.

 

[Nik H]

The whole subject is part of "the everyone gets a trophy mentality".

"Poor kid lived in the slums and that is why his SAT sucks." No admissions committee will do anything with it. The one area where it may actually help underprivileged kids is if they do well on the SAT and come from an adverse environment. May help with scholarships but academic scholarships are hard to come by these days so even then it is a stretch.

How about we go back to merit based admission...guess we can't do that as it is discriminatory.

 

[pmclaine]

Common Core and the deep state killing our future by the second.