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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by jedberg on Thursday May 16, 2019 @02:42PM (#19931673)
> CEO dad drops salary to $20k for a year and instead gets stock vesting equivalent "poor family"

Colleges are pretty wise to this trick. You aren't the first to think of it.

Relatedly is legally emancipating a child so they have "no parental support" and get a bunch of grants. That doesn't work either.

I suspect the colleges would get good as sussing out all those other tricks too.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by ben_jones on Thursday May 16, 2019 @02:44PM (#19931702)
Just like they were able to suss out all the student athletes who didn't actually do anything?
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by javagram on Thursday May 16, 2019 @02:53PM (#19931832)
Considering the FBI busted the ringleader of the scam and a bunch of people are going to jail, this seems like an example of the system working.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by droithomme on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:16PM (#19933328)
As you say, the FBI busted the scam which went on for years (decades?) and the colleges all say they had no idea about it, right? So his claim that the colleges weren't able to suss this out is absolutely correct in 100% of all known cases, right?
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by oh_sigh on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:04PM (#19933201)
The FBI only busted them because a person they were investigating for a completely separate issue told them about this in hopes to get a more lenient sentence. So yes, it is the system working, but we got very lucky the FBI stumbled upon this information.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by graeme on Thursday May 16, 2019 @02:45PM (#19931721)
That was bribery. The scheme was to bribe people who normally would do the sussing out.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by jedberg on Thursday May 16, 2019 @02:45PM (#19931718)
There will of course be false negatives.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by DtnB on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:29PM (#19934084)
its not so much 'sussing out tricks' as a blanket ban on anything that can be abused. My parents made roughly 100k when I was going to school but they were terrible with money and have a lot of children. The 'expected contribution' was actually quite high but I never received anything from my parents at all. Thus, I have much in the way of student loans.

Not to take away from your point but the colleges having to work against these sort of tricks has a lot of unintended consequences.

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