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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had to look up what is the SAT adversity score.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adversity-score-sat-exam-college-board-calculate-students-admissions-college-wall-street-journal/

I don't doubt privilege, but I think assigning a score rubs me the wrong way since I think there are all kinds of different person circumstances that can't be quantified.  College admissions counselors know the schools in their area.  I think they can eyeball it enough on their own without a score.[/quote]

Yep.  Parental death, sexual assaults, alcoholic parents, etc.  Where do you draw the line?

My white husband grew up dirt poor. His father was an alcoholic.  His mother worked two jobs and wasn’t around because of it.  His HS had only a small number that went on to 4-year colleges.  He scored a near perfect SAT score, much higher than me as white UMC student.  The students that benefited from racial admissions boost in my HS had wealthy doctor parents.  I couldn’t understand how they needed admissions help and with a full grade point lower they got in to every college they applied.  These things don’t always serve the group they are trying to help.  It’s similar to the wealthy Latinos at my children’s school getting into every Ivy.  It helps diversity numbers, but zero to do with SES.  This new adversity score  tries to address that, but things like this are always a disaster and a slippery slope.  Then, the students often aren’t prepared for the rigor of the environment they are thrust into.  And what about the Asians that are handicapped getting into Universities solely by being Asian?

Just do away with the test.

People looking at my husband now in his late 40s would assume he was a white, blue eyed man of privilege.  He pulled himself up by the bootstraps.

Read “Hillbilly Elegy”.  Eye opening.  My husband thinks much like the author does about this type of thing.  Not a fan.  [/quote]

Agreed.

Socioeconomics is far more accurate data point than race. But we're just talking about white privilege. [/quote]

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