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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a means of fostering social change (and knocking Asians down) this is awful.[/quote]

There are plenty of poor Asian neighborhoods. Wouldn't those zip codes count, too?

Honestly, it's just an adversity score that they're including with the test scores.  They aren't even planning to tell the test takers what their adversity score is.  It seems like the colleges will be free to take those adversity scores into consideration or not take them into consideration and give as little or as much weight to them in their admissions decisions as they want to.

I thought that universities run demographic data anyway so I don't know that this is really anything all that new other than now this will be done for them.

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Colleges have properly and obsessively  examined applicants’ economic background as part of holistic review.  This has been tied to an individual, though.  This adversity ranking — and the legal reverse discrimination it fosters — is a different kettle of fish.  To be sure, schools might be seeking to hide behind another entity to avoid lawsuits, such as the Harvard lawsuit.  Sure, some Asians are from poor neighborhoods.  But as a whole, this is very bad for them. [/quote]

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