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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kids, whiners of DCUM, will be fine. If they don’t got to HYPS they will not end up homeless bums. Why all this angst when you know your kid just by virtue of you being here typing on this site, which shows you are informed andmengaged, will be fine?[/quote]

And this is the bottom line.

Everyone knows this is an additional data point that does not replace the academic portions of the SAT. But when UMC people see their privilege infringed on even a tiny bit, they completely lose their shit.

I expect most people flipping out about this on DCUM are:

1. Rich enough to buy their kid a great college education, even w/o a useful "adversity score" and even if it's not at an Ivy

2. But not quite rich enough to sidle their way in through a big donation

3. Overcompensating like hell for their own relentless sense of inadequacy.

(Signed, parent of a white male LMC kid who won't get an adversity score, won't be able to afford an Ivy, but will likely do just fine at a state school)

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