SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
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Re: SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
#2This seems like a potentially good first step in trying to counter wealthy people's gaming of the system with SAT "prep" and the like.
Re: SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
#3This isn't right.
Re: SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
#4What does this do that knowing where the student went to school and how much their parents make (both things that colleges know) doesn't?
It seems like yet another opaque metric to be gamed by the people with the resources to spend optimizing for those sort of things.
Re: SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
#5This seems like a potentially good first step in trying to counter wealthy people's gaming of the system with SAT "prep" and the like.
studying is gaming the system?
Re: SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
#6I wonder how much of the correlation between income and SAT scores is due to wealthier people's children just being more intelligent, rather than due to having access to better education.
Re: SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
#7Soon we will have SAT advisers suggesting how to game the "adversity score" as well.
- Get a summer job "because your family needed money"
- Move out of your parents house for a summer "bad living conditions"
- Adopt some non-binary gender temporarily "bullied for identifying as x"
- CEO dad drops salary to $20k for a year and instead gets stock vesting equivalent "poor family"
etc. etc.
Re: SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
#8This seems like a potentially good first step in trying to counter wealthy people's gaming of the system with SAT "prep" and the like.
Seems like something even easier to game since it's a score that doesn't depend on your creature's performance.
Re: SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
#9This seems like a potentially good first step in trying to counter wealthy people's gaming of the system with SAT "prep" and the like.
studying is gaming the system?
Being able to afford $100+ an hour for a pro to teach you exactly what you need to know to do well on the SAT is gaming the system
Re: SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
#10Soon we will have SAT advisers suggesting how to game the "adversity score" as well. - Get a summer job "because your family needed money" - Move out of your parents house for a summer "bad living conditions" - Adopt some non-binary gender temporarily "bullied for identifying as x" - CEO dad drops salary to $20k for a year and instead gets stock vesting equivalent "poor family" etc. etc.
Oh god. The original idea sounds good on paper, but, oh god.