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Topic	SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds
KILBOTz 05/16/19 9:58:42 PM #145:	Balrog0 posted... It's not about your community or theirs for that matter. It's about the individuals coming from those communities and how those localities have different structural barriers. The problem rural communities have is more about brain drain than about an inability for individuals to obtain an education, not that that's meaningless. Sounds like this is entirely sour grapes and not even in an understandable way, you've really got to stretch to read this as bad for rural communities lol Alright, well to start I should just say more than anything I am against this in concept, the particular argument was just the first thing that popped out. At the end of the day I totally agree with the bolded part. I just don't trust them to be able to come up with a calculation to be able to actually serve all the individuals. People will get left out. The article didn't give much information at all so I am filling in a number of blanks. So first I am assuming that they aren't doing any sort of quotas by region or social status. That means the higher the score the higher the factor to add onto their SAT score. So all else equal, I think it is valid to question if the math to come up with that number seems reasonable. We are talking these scores mattering at selective universities where it is a zero sum game, for everyone that gets in, someone doesn't. The fact the number is hidden to the applicant, the math isn't disclosed, we are just supposed to trust them? --- https://imgur.com/O3syCWD https://imgur.com/k3YiBdG <cite>KILBOTz posted [p:921997048] in SATs to as... [t:77719644]...</cite> <quote><cite>Balrog0 posted...</cite> <quote>It's not about your community or theirs for that matter. It's about the individuals coming from those communities and how those localities have different structural barriers. The problem rural communities have is more about brain drain than about an inability for individuals to obtain an education, not that that's meaningless. Sounds like this is entirely sour grapes and not even in an understandable way, you've really got to stretch to read this as bad for rural communities lol</quote> Alright, well to start I should just say more than anything I am against this in concept, the particular argument was just the first thing that popped out. At the end of the day I totally agree with the bolded part. I just don't trust them to be able to come up with a calculation to be able to actually serve all the individuals. People will get left out. The article didn't give much information at all so I am filling in a number of blanks. So first I am assuming that they aren't doing any sort of quotas by region or social status. That means the higher the score the higher the factor to add onto their SAT score. So all else equal, I think it is valid to question if the math to come up with that number seems reasonable. We are talking these scores mattering at selective universities where it is a zero sum game, for everyone that gets in, someone doesn't. The fact the number is hidden to the applicant, the math isn't disclosed, we are just supposed to trust them? --- https://imgur.com/O3syCWD https://imgur.com/k3YiBdG</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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