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[quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]I thought that universities run demographic data anyway [/b]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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They do. You have it right. Nothing is new here.

I think half of the outrage is due to the really inaccurate subject line on this thread. It isn't an adjustment. It's a score reflecting SES of one's census tract and high school. [/quote]

Yep: Yale has used the College Board’s new tool for two admissions cycles, said Jeremiah Quinlan, the dean of undergraduate admissions. He said it provided the same context that Yale has been looking at for decades, but does so in a standardized way across schools and applicants that is very helpful.

“There’s nothing wrong with the SAT score,” Mr. Quinlan said. “It just helps contextualize the SAT score for us. When you’re able to see a student’s SAT score and then compare it to the SAT scores of the other students at the school, that can be powerful to identify a truly transcendent student.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/us/sat-score.amp.html

Also, the number is being misleadingly called an “adversity score” when it’s actually an “environmental context index” which better reflects that the score is about the student’s environment, not the student.

https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/589708/

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