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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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