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Are Adversity Scores the Answer?

May 17, 2019 by GregC

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The College Board announced it is calculating an “adversity score” for the SAT in order to boost the chances for students living in the midst of great hardship to get accepted into college.

The adversity score takes 15 different factors into account, including the crime rate and poverty level in a students neighborhood and high school.

“There are a number of amazing students who may have scored less (on the SAT) but have accomplished more,” David Coleman, chief executive of the College Board, said, said according to the Wall Street Journal. “We can’t sit on our hands and ignore the disparities of wealth reflected in the SAT.”

The College Board insists this change does not take race into account.  However, Horace Cooper of the Project 21 National Advisory Board isn’t buying it.

“There’s an attempt being made by the SAT testing centers to hide better the utilization of race as a technique for making it easier for some people to be admitted while making it harder for others,” said Cooper, who says students from stable families and communities end up suffering.

“The so-called adversity scale – if it were even race-neutral – appears to say that the parents who work together and stay together in a relationship and it benefits their children are going to now be disadvantaged,” said Cooper.

Cooper believes the extra score for growing up in difficult circumstances provides lousy parents with an incentive to stay that way.

“Children that grow up in households where moms and dads stay together do better financially.  They do better academically.  They do better in terms of criminal interaction and law enforcement than those who do not.  We don’t want to create a situation, where we start at the end and work our way back, and then we end up incentivizing people not to (be concerned about these things,” said Cooper.

Listen to the full podcast to hear Cooper address concerns that disadvantaged students suffer because a chaotic home life causes their studies to suffer through no fault of their own.  He also reveals how he believes the college admissions system ought to work.

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Trump Derails California Train Project, Gillibrand Slams Federalism, SAT Overhaul: Adversity or Diversity?

May 17, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America have a lively discussion of the Trump administration’s withdrawal of federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project. Democratic presidential hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand says states would no longer be able to legislate on abortion if she gets elected. And Jim offers a radical counter-proposal after learning an adversity score was added to the SAT.

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Adversity Score Added to SAT

May 16, 2019 by GregC

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The College Board announced it will be instituting an adversity test for the SATs in 150 schools to measure the level of difficult faced by each student. The new system will take into consideration the socio-economic upbringing of each student. The change seeks to better represent students who accomplished more with less; considering the poverty and crime rates faced by students over the course of their childhood. Matt Fisher reports.

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Filed Under: News & Politics Tagged With: admissions, adversity, college board, poverty, SAT

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