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> Students won't be told the scores, but colleges will see the numbers when reviewing their applications. What's the rationale for withholding this information
by pdog 7y ago
> Students won't be told the scores, but colleges will see the numbers when reviewing their applications.
What's the rationale for withholding this information from students?
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- sam0x17 7y agoOtherwise super rich kids will be taught the types of answers to select to maximize their adversity score. That is still going to happen though.
- pdog 7y agoThe score is based on 15 factors in three categories that are pretty hard to fake: neighborhood, family, and high school. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adversity-score-sat-exam-college-board-calculate-students-admissions-college-wall-street-journal/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adversity-score-sat-exam-colleg...
- dragonwriter 7y ago> The score is based on 15 factors in three categories that are pretty hard to fake: neighborhood, family, and high school. Actually, several of them are not impractical to fake (and neighborhood is something people often fake for educational purposes—which also affects school directly—though usually in the opposite direction that would benefit adversity score for both; once there's an advantage to going the other way for, say, the period relevant to the SAT adversity score, of course people will hack it if they know the factors.)
- sam0x17 7y agoAnd the rich kids are going to be literally trained on how to fake them. That's just how this works. (source: grew up in Greenwich, CT)