Anonymous wrote:Ho boy. If you ever wanted to incentivize the appearance of disadvantage, here it is. Watch as parents rush to their department store DNA tests to claim "ancestry" in faraway lands in order to claim allegiance to some oppressed minority. Watch social failings like single-parent households, high crime rates, divorce and abuse become marketable assets. This is disgusting.

Anonymous wrote:How about for overcoming special needs?

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Anonymous wrote:The SAT and College Board in general is the great undiscovered scam on the American educational system. This is an interesting idea, but I don't trust them to have thought it through or have the professional capacity to execute this in the appropriate way, if there is one. Plus colleges already look at context. And what will it mean for magnet program kids?
Kahn academy has partnered with the College Board to offer free college prep and this may be the reason that the last two years of SAT scores are out of sync with previous, requiring down-curving perfectly good performance. Word has it they have made recent changes to the SAT without the proper consultation of psychometricians and the recent rounds of testing are unreliable. The article says College Board will send the adversity score to colleges but not tell the family what score they are sending. Is that legal?

I meant to add that I think the Kahn academy prep is great and does a lot to level the playing field as far as making prep available to those who can't or don't want to spend on expensive private prep. But it may be a reason that they are resorting to downcurving the test as the only way to get separation on the now dumbed-down test. Who would take an instrument and deliberately make it less precise??

It is KHAN ACADEMY - run by a Muslim Bangladeshi Immigrant - SALMAN KHAN!

Calling it "Kahn" makes it look like some White Jewish dude came up with it. What a blatant attempt of cultural appropriation. Give credit to the person who has made this site possible. How f**king ignorent and racists are you?

Anonymous wrote:McLean kid applying for college: mommmmm, what adversity have I faced?
Mom: our house was built in the late 90s and is just 4,000 square feet.

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Anonymous wrote:The SAT and College Board in general is the great undiscovered scam on the American educational system. This is an interesting idea, but I don't trust them to have thought it through or have the professional capacity to execute this in the appropriate way, if there is one. Plus colleges already look at context. And what will it mean for magnet program kids?
Kahn academy has partnered with the College Board to offer free college prep and this may be the reason that the last two years of SAT scores are out of sync with previous, requiring down-curving perfectly good performance. Word has it they have made recent changes to the SAT without the proper consultation of psychometricians and the recent rounds of testing are unreliable. The article says College Board will send the adversity score to colleges but not tell the family what score they are sending. Is that legal?

I meant to add that I think the Kahn academy prep is great and does a lot to level the playing field as far as making prep available to those who can't or don't want to spend on expensive private prep. But it may be a reason that they are resorting to downcurving the test as the only way to get separation on the now dumbed-down test. Who would take an instrument and deliberately make it less precise??

It is KHAN ACADEMY - run by a Muslim Bangladeshi Immigrant - SALMAN KHAN!

Calling it "Kahn" makes it look like some White Jewish dude came up with it. What a blatant attempt of cultural appropriation. Give credit to the person who has made this site possible. How f**king ignorent and racists are you?

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Anonymous wrote:So the colleges are willing to dumb down their curriculum for kids who aren’t prepared? Or they just pass them through to graduation? I don’t get how this helps anyone.

Well, it doesn't have to work that way. They could still set benchmarks and if there are two equally qualified students, look at adversity scores to determine admissions.

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it’s not a quandary at all, much less an interesting one. colleges are places where smart kids are put one the road to expertise. that’s how the rest of the world sees it. only in the USA colleges are country clubs looking for “leaders”. this is the root of all problems.

so-called disadvantaged kids don’t have the background to benefit from the level of expertise offered at the very best universities. if you struggle with algebra you don’t need a field’s medalist to teach you, In fact it’s a waste, a major misallocation of resources. again nothing new here, this is how the rest of the world sees it. only in the USA it’s ok to make billions on some stupid app but omg semi-literate kids must shepherded into the best schools because inequality!

Basically, yes. Kids and their families from poverty stricken/ disadvantaged areas can still take initiative to be well educated and get good SAT scores and shoot for top colleges... and do well at them. It makes no sense to just across the board try to make these schools accessible to anyone and everyone and make it a “level playing field” for “diversity” purposes. We’re going backwards here folks. Making kids feel that they aren’t smart enough or ambitious enough as the rich kids from good areas so we need to give them a boost/head start. It’s not doing them any favors. More victim entitled mentality.