Posted on 05/16/2019 3:10:29 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The College Board plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT to try to capture their social and economic background, jumping into the debate raging over race and class in college admissions.
This new number, called an adversity score by college admissions officers, is calculated using 15 factors including the crime rate and poverty levels from the student’s high school and neighborhood. Students won’t be told the scores, but colleges will see the numbers when reviewing their applications.
Fifty colleges used the score last year as part of a beta test. The College Board plans to expand it to 150 institutions this fall, and then use it broadly the following year.
How colleges consider a student’s race and class in making admissions decisions is hotly contested. Many colleges, including Harvard University, say a diverse student body is part of the educational mission of a school. A lawsuit accusing Harvard of discriminating against Asian-American applicants by holding them to a higher standard is awaiting a judge’s ruling. Lawsuits charging unfair admission practices have also been filed against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of California system.
The College Board, the New York based nonprofit that oversees the SAT, said it has worried about income inequality influencing test results for years. White students scored an average of 177 points higher than black students and 133 points higher than Hispanic students in 2018 results. Asian students scored 100 points higher than white students. The children of wealthy and college-educated parents outperformed their classmates.
“There are a number of amazing students who may have scored less [on the SAT] but have accomplished more,” said David Coleman, chief executive of the College Board.
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Any certificate, degree, or diploma in the hands of a “preferred minority” has meant nothing for decades - because of this BS.
Round down AT LEAST two levels with such things; a preferred victim with a Masters degree probably has the education/qualifications of an Associates degree, and such a person with a Bachelors degree is the equivalent of an elementary school graduate. Supervisors know this; it couldn’t be concealed forever...
So rich parents can just buy a home in the ghetto to get their stupid kids into good colleges?
It’ll be really hilarious when the net result is Asians (many recent immigrants in lower socioeconomic situations) come out even farther ahead than they do now, with the extra padding on top of their already high average. Some are going to get above 1600 total!
I have a friend in North Carolina, who manages a Chiropractic office. The Company that provides the office staff gives an online “assessment” to prospective employees. A recent candidate who has a Master’s degree from a well known HBCU, applied for an entry level office position and scored a 7. That’s 7 out of 100, with a Master’s degree.
“Students won’t be told the scores, but colleges will see the numbers when reviewing their applications.”
Looks like a system designed to be abused...
So like if I go to Viet Nam and ride around in a Swift Boat and get five (count’em) Purple Hearts in less than six months.... my SAT will be adjusted for experience.
So if I run around with JFK and his brother Robert Kennedy on Yacht and have pictures taken the SAT will capture my Up Scale upbringing in Prep Schools.
Methinks not.
Rather this is move water under the bridge to water down the poor public education and self segregation.
Self segregation for many reasons. Maybe the fact that our schools K-12 have not been successful in integration, period. Given this failure within the public school system administered by members of both cultures there may be multiple reasons. Politics of Culture and Party both play a role, as well as the subpressures of Union Membership in the NEA, NTA, etc.
The public schools promote the United Nations over the United States. Teaching that our Nation is shameful because of European Legacy without mentioning the European Nations who brought us slavery and the Indian Wars is a building block of historical significance PURPOSEFULLY OVERLOOKED (Teachers are not to be politicians or activists but in essence they promote their personal agendas in school just as Political Appointees who stay on in the USG do creating The Swamp in DC).
Kids get the lesson black culture is incompatible with say white culture because white culture is the only one capable of Racism, they took land from the Indians and used Slaves. Lost in the lesson plan the any notion or revelation of the Laws under England and the transition under the Declaration of Independence, which took 85 years and a Civil War to sort out the issue of economic system and freedom for Slaves.
Politics should be a civics course, not a constant drumbeat by educators. Political issues should require pro and con assignments rotating students in defense of different political party issues. Teaching kids to make informed decisions rather than making them into foot soldiers for socialism by pushing Green Politics, anti-Gun politics, etc., is the core issue facing real education.
Our children do not learn about the history of their State and the United States, nor are they taught anything about the Constitution, Bill of Rights or Amendments (transition of Constitutional clarifications over time). Nor are children taught how to budget a checkbook (say in conjunction a $100 dollars a week and reasonable assumptions on spending for meal plan, utilities, rent, insurance and car ownership); rather our children are ushered thru K-12 in 13-16 and handed college admissions paperwork with a near mandatory Student Loan application for 17-20K annually for four years - whether they need the money and even if they are on a full paid scholarship; free money me thinks not but to a graduate of the public school system it is a right, but later they LEARN a rite of passage in poor educational foundation.
The SAT has become an impediment to political indrontrinication and thus has to be adjusted to allow the foot soldiers of socialism and communism to continue their struggle(s).
Great question!
Now what?
A steep drop-off in whites births, and more foreigners imported to replace the missing generations. They are rapidly running out of white people to pay for everything, and our replacements aren’t here to give - they’re here to take.
Towards the end of the Obamunist reign, they (unsuccessfully) tried to create another “preferred victim” class: MENA (Middle East/North Africa) - primarily Arabs. They are cutting off segments of the populations, leaving white guys as the host on which all other parasites will feed.
Take the ACT, instead. It covers more, anyway.
Colleges used to have admissions people with the brains to identify this stuff and make recommendations. But, everything needs a score these days.
I can absolutely believe it.
Just having potential employees write a five-sentence paragraph can tell you a lot.
In the end, it doesn’t matter much; if larger companies don’t have their allotment of employees from the Island of Broken Toys, then they are sued for tons of money - and must take on extra toys as reparations. This isn’t even concealed in companies with government contracts, or those offered tax breaks to locate in urban sh!tholes.
They realized the affirmative action students know they are tokens and fail anyway (with even lower self-esteem).
Nobody has the political will to tell these people that without massive cultural adjustment (related to family, education, and work ethic), they will always be the permanent underclass here. Government hiring already masks many deficiencies, and creates a faux middle class for them.
Cautionary tale about the ACT.
Check in US News and World Report to see that an average ACT score for admissions is actually reported. I won’t name the Schools but certain institutions say they will accept an ACT or an SAT score but in practice no one who took only the ACT is admitted.
The ACT is significantly easier than the SAT. Great pressure is applied to Universities ( not colleges ) to accept either.
They do not. My son would not listen to me and took only the ACT. He did not get into the school(s) of his choice.
It worked out for the better anyway. ( Thank God ).
And some people, regardless of race, are destined for mediocrity. Just because they are black, messycan, whatever, doesn't mean we have to hold back smarter whites and Asians. That's as discriminatory as a "coloreds only" sign.
Excellent point. One of the reasons New York City is looking to ditch the entrance exams for their top high schools and just go to a free-for-all admissions process is that the city has become filled with a lot of recent Asian immigrants who live in borderline poverty but drive their kids hard to excel in school.
Lawsuits coming 3-2-1....
There has to be an end to educational elitism - which is the driving force behind all student ranking (i.e. ‘I got into a high-ranking elite university’). The idea that college/university ranking correlates with how ‘smart’ graduating students are is dated, and inaccurate at best. This elitism has done great damage to our nation and society - almost to the level of being a scourge. Seriously.
Hillary's ‘career’ began when she got into Wellesley - which facilitated her getting into Yale Law. Had she gone to the University of Illinois, and then maybe DePaul School of Law, she might have eventually become active in Illinois politics, but would not have been on a Watergate investigative team, or had nearly as many opportunities as she has had. Nonetheless, her ‘elite’ Yale Law School education led her to flunking the DC bar. I'm sure most DePaul graduates would have passed it, as did many people from ‘lesser’ universities who passed the DC bar the same year she failed it.
At this point ALL of our Supreme Court Justices attended Yale or Harvard Law. No diversity of education. Often the same law Professors. Shared connections. This is supposed to make our nation stronger? This is supposed to give us more representative government? Of course it doesn't, but it is how things currently work.
One answer is mandatory exit testing, ranking graduates on what they learned, NOT where they attended classes. The DC bar exam was one such ‘exit test’, and clearly the Yale Law School student, Hillary, didn't do as well as her counterparts who went to ‘lesser’ universities but who passed the Bar.
The details of how to introduce and manage exit testing would have to be worked out, and it would have to be done in such a way that it was not run federally (or by government at all) and that no university had access to the questions. In the end, this type of testing would allow students who went to community colleges to compete with those who went to Princeton.
This is the only way we can achieve a truly fair system. Currently, the old cliche “It's not what you know, but who you know.”, rings way too true.
Mea-Culpa, I’m so sorry, I’ll never let a fact stand in the way of a good story again. Should I put on black face like my Governor? He did and we all know he’s not a racist. right?
How about we just ban white people from going to college? That way the systemic racism can be dismantled.
I may be sarcastic but at the rate things are going this will be proposed in the next 10-15 years and they will be dead serious about it.
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