The measure will be based on a variety of indicators about their neighborhood, family and high school environments.
The College Board plans to assign an “adversity score” to test takers, which will aim to measure their socioeconomic background, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The College Board’s announcement comes as policy makers, higher education leaders and others grow increasingly concerned that our higher education system is reinforcing inequalities instead of acting as the engine of economic mobility it’s often pitched to be. The adversity score itself could be open to misinterpretation. A student could be living in a foster home in a well-off neighborhood, for example. “The fact that universities would be receiving data collected by a third party, assembled by a third party that results in a score — that’s used in a decision as important as admissions without that individual having access to that score — is crazy.”
They’re more likely to have access to test prep and other resources that can help them score better on the test. In addition, even when colleges do admit low-income students in larger numbers, that doesn’t mean they’re able to offer financial aid and other resources. More context is helpful, admissions officers say Admissions officers have welcomed the additional score, Hawkins said. “It’s going to take time to figure out how this thing works,” he said.
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