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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's to stop a kid from lying about income to College Board? Many kids may not actually even know an accurate answer.[/quote]

You can get close enough to income if you look at the home value and neighborhood...they won't need to be precise...[/quote]

Again alot of misinformation here. They will use the kid's home address and school address to make the calculation. I think this would be great and allow for parents to be more open minded about school districts they would not have considered. Also, one could argue that the college board is  doing this to cover their own asses as it stands now- the SAT is clearly discriminatory against low SES students given how it breaks down perfectly by SES. Unless we are saying with certainty that poor kids are on average just not as smart as rich kids (which is not the case- I went to high school in Greenwich CT and ppl got high scores but trust me they were not super-smart geniuses) the test is biased against those who are poor. This attempts to provide much needed context to the score. It is a great idea- race neutral and not something you can fudge. [/quote]

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