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

Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by solveit on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:56PM (#19935102)

Obviously both are bad, but if you had to choose (and you kind of do, because admissions is zero-sum in the short term), you should incentivise good character.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by bilbo0s on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:39AM (#19936344)

I guess I was more getting at the question of how we got to the point where we're giving out college admission, based on who your parents are? And what your parents lived through?

If you want to incentivize character built through life experiences? OK, I guess. But it should have to be the life and character of the actual student that counts. Not his mom.

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