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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by manfredo on Friday May 17, 2019 @04:52AM (#19937607)
Not the case, at least in my experience. I work in the San Francisco Bay Area. We recruit exclusively at Ives, the likes of Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, etc. and HBCUs and HWCUs. There's a big push to increase racial and gender diversity at least in this region. There's not much much diversity at religious colleges (>82% white, nowhere near the kind of representation we're looking for).
Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by wolco on Friday May 17, 2019 @09:20AM (#19939289)
Before you try to diversity based on race you need to diversity more based on other factors and stop hiring from the same schools as everyone.

Who cares if you have x number from certain race groups if everyone is from the same monoculture. Why not try to hire the best from African schools.. that will give you race diversity more important cultural diversity.

Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by Veelox on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:50PM (#19941336)
While I am sure you are well intentioned in your efforts to increase diversity in the Bay Area, your comment makes me think the end result of your hiring policy is going to be diversity in everything but thought. That makes me sad.