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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by YjSe2GMQ on Thursday May 16, 2019 @07:50PM (#19934662)
Which is absurd, considering it's involved in college admission process.

Maybe we should also have a hidden citizen score, to be used behind the scenes in the courts of law?

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by Mirioron on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:10PM (#19934800)
We should call it the social credit score.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by ceejayoz on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:20PM (#19935639)
> Which is absurd, considering it's involved in college admission process.

Your SAT score is just about the only bit of the admission process you have access to. You don't get the admissions officers' opinions on your essay, what they thought of your extracurriculars, how they perceive the reputation of your high school, what their alumni interviewers said, etc.

(Chances are you can make a pretty good guess at what the adversity score is going to be, too.)

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by TFortunato on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:57PM (#19935485)
You mean like this? https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by NullPrefix on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:10PM (#19934798)
Should adversity points be included in that citizen score?
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by harryh on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:37PM (#19934974)
The college admission process (especially for more elite schools) already involves lots of secrecy.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by solveit on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:55PM (#19935086)
And all that secrecy should go burn in a fire. Colleges have more impact than many government institutions, and they certainly take in a lot more government funding than many government institutions. They should be as transparent as government institutions if not more (What's the rationale against? National security?).
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