SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social and Economic Background

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Are you saying lower SES people are living in affluent census tracts to go to the schools? It seems likely that these schools catchments have some areas(census tracts) that may not be as affluent as the majority. Lots of lower cost rental properties and thus will be somewhat reflected in the scores.

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As someone from a disadvantage background I wish all this focus would go into fixing K-12. All of this focus to get into an elite college is a waste of time. This will only help a small percentage of people. Most will end up at their local CC or state school. Fixing K-12 and more funding for local public colleges will have a bigger impact.

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Lots of people saying that low-income students at magnet schools will have scores that “don’t reflect their situation”…but don’t the high school AND the home neighborhood both affect the challenges one faces?
I agree that a low-income student at an affluent school will have a lower adversity score than maybe they should, but still, I think that a poor student who goes to a wealthy high school (with AP classes, smaller class size, good guidance cousenlors, etc.) would probably face less adversity than a poor student who goes to a poor school (that may not have the same resources, classes, etc).

So really, to truly capture a student’s “real” situation (whatever that means), they would have to incorporate both school-level and student-level data, which they aren’t doing and probably couldn’t.

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Here is a neat video summing up some of the factors and the problems it may bring,
https://youtu.be/NS73GDrefqA

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An interesting personal story in The New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-i-would-have-fared-on-the-sats-adversity-score

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She writes well, but I’m not sure what point she was making. (Or even if she had one.)

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So apparently they are dropping the Adversity Score and instead using something called “Landscape.”

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/459041-sat-drops-student-adversity-score

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And on that note, I’m closing this thread and redirecting to the new thread on the drop: Feel free to join the conversation on that thread:
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/2154793-college-board-drops-plans-for-sat-student-adversity-scores.html#latest