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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Holistic admissions colleges already factor this stuff in.[/b] Now they do it with census tract data, noting whether a high school is Title 1/how many students qualify for free or reduced meals.

SAT is doing this to make it easier for colleges - who won't have to compute this on their own - and try to make themselves indispensable to an admissions offices. [/quote]

I believe it is really a defensive move by College Board so they don't get completely sidelined by the SAT-optional movement.  If they are able to offer these social adversity scores together with SAT, then the admissions offices won't need to or won't be allowed to just ignore SAT scores because the usual SAT-optional constituency (i.e. disadvantaged students and their families) will see the SAT as an attractive test to submit so they can get the "extra points" in admissions compared to high-scoring advantaged populations but still show that they are better than the next student in their own classroom.   It is a way to make the SAT less irrelevant to college admissions offices.  Notice they are using both school-based geographic factors as well as student-specific factors so that colleges will have to subscribe and encourage all students to continue to take the SAT.  I would say it is a pretty good business strategy for the college board.  Although, I am sure at some point after enough people sue them they will have to release these scores to the students themselves, otherwise, students will just take the ACT instead and you will only have poor students taking the SAT and most of the advantaged middle and upper middle class students will take the ACT.

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Bing. Bing. Bing.

I see this as moving kids over to the ACT[/quote]

I just read an article that says that the ACT is working on a similar index.  There is no escaping this.[/quote]

This is also how US News, Niche and Great Schools are now ranking high schools.

People are freaking out for no reason. This really isn't going to change much at all for applicants. It may mean that admissions offices can hire fewer staff members, because the expertise they develop about which schools offer what - APs, advanced courses and so forth - will now be in a database. [/quote]

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