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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't we just go back to test scores that's the whole point. Social engineering has nothing to do with education. Software code, cancer etc don't care whether it's black, white or yellow hands working to solve problems.[/quote]

You really don't get it, do you? When our kids are being kids and playing sports, acting in plays, and just hanging out with friends, there are many other kids who have jobs (not pocket money jobs, but help support the family jobs) and worries about where they will sleep, or what they will eat, or how they will have clean clothes or weather appropriate clothes, and not just for themselves but often also for younger siblings.

This is a real disadvantage that test scores don't capture.  Can kids succeed under these circumstances? ABSOLUTELY.  Is it easy? ABSOLUTELY NOT.  Tests don't measure potential and for these kids college is their only way out.  They don't have family money to fall back on.
So if an adversity score (and I am not saying this plan is perfect) helps level the playing field just a bit, then I am all for it.  I don't get the impression that these scores negate academic scores.  It is just another data point to consider when they are looking at the whole person during the admission process.  [/quote]

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