Recently, the College Board decided to implement a new ‘Adversity score’ which basically calculates poverty rates, crime rates, how good their school is, and the whole socioeconomic ordeals surrounding their neighborhood. This is aimed to give college admissions officers an extra insight into the college application, but it is also aimed at getting race out of the equation for college. This way, the colleges could make a diverse campus based on socioeconomic status and merit rather than just race. This new addition was met with a lot of controversy from many different people for multiple reasons, such as you can’t define someone’s troubles with just a socioeconomic ‘score.’
This article was written on May 16, 2019 by Anemona Hartocollis. Previously, I had known about this score but I didn’t fully realize what it was used for. I think the intentions college board has are good, but I feel like they are executing their whole idea incorrectly. Although I agree that people who live in lower socioeconomic areas do go through more to get better grades, etc. I feel like you can’t measure each individual person through a score because not everyone lives the same life. Recently, for example, there was a group of Asian Americans who sued Harvard saying that they wanted race blind admissions, and this created a large controversy. Many people of color believed that by making admissions ‘race blind’ then colleges are ridding those people of what makes them truly an individual. I believe everyone has their own reasons to hate or love the new adversity score, but it seems childish and innocent of college board to believe that everyone in each socioeconomic level has gone through the same amount of trouble.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/us/sat-score.html?module=inline
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