Anyway, fun thread to post in on the day that the College Board announces that it will apply a Harrison Bergeron factor to everyone's SAT scores.
I had to Google...
WSJ link or
random local news link that you don't have to pay for or
Texas A&M forums, to know what you were talking about. Well, first I googled Harrison Bergeron, and that just told me of the Scifi story, so I properly adjusted my search and found the above links.
The non-profit College Board which oversees SAT scores will be adding what is being called an 'Adversity Score' to students taking the test in hopes of getting into college.
According to the College Board, a research study of the program was launched in 2016, followed by a pilot program in 2018. Now, according to the Wall Street Journal, the pilot will be expanded to 150 schools this fall with plans to continue growth in 2020.
The goal of the 'Adversity Score' is to provide what the College Board calls environmental context to test results. The student's location and high school serve as the basis for information of their environment. Factors such as crime rate, poverty rate, housing values, median income, family income, and access to advanced course work are among the factors which grade the student's environment.
The findings are then used by colleges participating in the program to be compared with a student's score when being considered for admission. According to the Wall Street Journal, the College Board has been concerned about income inequality influencing test results and CEO David Coleman believes there are "a number of amazing students" who could be scoring low on the SAT but have a lot to offer colleges.
I was under the impression that colleges already had their own systems for factoring such things in to keep the Asians and Whites from filling out all the campuses, no? Maybe this is because the
Asians recently started suing and the colleges wanted to push this job off onto someone else before they all got caught up in civil rights lawsuits?
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