SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships

Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by lotsofpulp on Thursday May 16, 2019 @07:35PM (#19934556)

I would need some very heavy proof that traveling (aka vacations where you instagram breakfast with a view) and eating at restaurants makes someone a well rounded individual, not to mention someone who “adds” to an educational institute.

I would put my chips on someone who has at least proven themselves academically.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by serf on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:29PM (#19935312)

>I would put my chips on someone who has at least proven themselves academically.

everyone seems to be conflating academics with person-building in this thread.

Why don't these same people seem to have any problem with non-academic scholarships?

Here's the grand reason why it's a good idea to make schools mixing-pots : You can expose the really effective students to ideas and concepts that they may have never experienced, which they may use more constructively than other individuals.

In other words : Colleges need people that create the idea of Napster , but they also need the folks that can implement it. Both groups are only marginally effective without the other.

Similar line of philosophical questioning : 'Why do managers exist?'

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