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How do I give my information for Adversity score as there is no mention of it on College Board’s Website that asks to enter my details?
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Does MIT and Columbia University consider Adversity Score in admissions process?
You already give the information to determine your score. You give your address and school. https://professionals.collegeboard.org/environmental-context-dashboard/detailed-data-description The score isn’t an individual score. If your neighbor goes to the same school, they have the same score.
But it’s not just about high school…I guess it covers my family background, income, my neighborhood surroundings atmosphere etc. So will colleges try to know that themselves or will I have to enter the details?
Also, I am from India and only 2 students in my school have given SAT. How will colleges know that?
@Eeyore123 - Does college board generate an adversity score for international students? Everything I’ve read says they use US census data and school reports together.
Much of the data is Census data. I don’t know for sure, but I doubt.
This is one of the big communication failures by CB. The now-defunct Adversity score was based on publicly available information - demographics of your neighborhood, based on your address and your school’s address. There was zero personal/family information. Read the press releases from today - the new dashboard is all census and government info (income, crime rates, poverty rates, etc.). The adversity score just combined this into a single number, which has now been dropped.
IMO, none of this is anything top schools didn’t do already. A few college tours that I attended, confirmed this. AO’s said it would be nice to take the workload of compiling the info off their plates, but no new data was provided in the pilot program.
Closing thread as the question is now moot.
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/2154793-college-board-drops-plans-for-sat-student-adversity-scores.html#latest