The College Board's announcement this week that it would no longer use an “Adversity Score” in its assessment of students who take the SAT exam was viewed as good news by the many critics who had argued against reducing students' myriad life experiences to a single number.
The Adversity Score was part of the College Board's “Environmental Context Dashboard,” which was introduced last May and intended to give admissions officers a more detailed understanding of the SAT scores of students. As the Los Angeles Times noted, “the version used by about 50 institutions in a pilot program involved a formula that combined school and neighborhood factors like advanced course offerings and the crime rate to produce a single number.”
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