"The College Board is abandoning its plan to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT college admissions test, after facing criticism from educators and parents.
Instead, it will try to capture a student’s social and economic background in a broad array of data points. The new tactic is called Landscape and, while it includes much of the same information, it doesn’t combine the metrics into a single score.
The original tool, called the “environmental context dashboard,” combined about 15 socioeconomic metrics from a student’s high school and neighborhood to create something college admission officers called an “adversity score.”"