4 reasons the College Board's new adversity score is a bad idea:
The College Board has revealed that it will calculate an “adversity score” for every student taking the SAT. According to the, it’s an attempt to address evidence that children of wealthy, college-educated parents score higher on the SAT than less privileged students. At least in theory, the adjusted scores will help colleges more objectively evaluate the academic abilities of all applicants.
This is not the first time the College Board has “contextualized” SAT scores based on student backgrounds. According to thereporting, about 20 years ago it experimented with what it called a “Strivers” program that used socioeconomic variables – and at school’s discretion, race - to predict SAT scores. Students whose actual scores exceeded their predicted scores by more than 200 points were dubbed “strivers.
He’s right, but that doesn’t mean that adversity scores will solve the problem. Here are four reasons why we should be skeptical. 2. At a time when standardized testing is under increased scrutiny and is even being discontinued or minimized as an admission tool by hundreds of colleges, one must wonder whether adversity scores are primarily an attempt to protect the SAT’s market or to promote social mobility. Colleges that are genuinely concerned about the bias built into the tests or the cheating associated with the SAT or the ACT, have a simpler choice: don’t require students to take them.
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