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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With the nice graphics that put your SAT score in a bar graph next to peer averages in your school, the people this will hurt are people who perform in the middle of the pack who have low adversity scores.  This will just encourage even more madness in students overloading their schedules, taken more and more AP's, extra-curriculars, etc. in efforts to distinguish themselves--->more stress.  [/quote]

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This score isn't going to add any more to the madness.  There is much more stress added by UMC families who spend thousands on extra curriculars for their kids.  My friends' kids do private piano, clarinet and violin lessons.  They also pretty much all do a travel sport.  Just doing an instrument or sport at school isn't good enough, you need private lessons and travel sports to distinguish yourselves.  I worry way more about that rat race than some diversity index that factors in things college likely consider anyway.  The pressure to take more AP classes and do more extra curriculars is coming from Asian families who stress academics and white families who dump money into travel sports.  Those combine to crank up the pressure.  This stat that just tells the schools what they already know means nothing on that front.[/quote]

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