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August 27, 2019 11:20 pm

College Board Drops Plans For SAT Student 'Adversity Scores'

The College Board is abandoning its plan to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT college admissions test, after facing criticism from educators and parents. Instead, it will try to capture a student's social and economic background in a broad array of data points (Warning: source paywalled, alternative source). The new tactic is called Landscape and doesn't combine the metrics into a single score. The Wall Street Journal reports: The original tool, called the "environmental context dashboard," combined about 15 socio-economic metrics from a student's high school and neighborhood to create something college admission officers called an "adversity score." Landscape is designed to help colleges compare an applicant's test scores to other students in their high school and beyond, the College Board said. It also aims to give a picture of the quality of the school and relative wealth and stability of the neighborhood. Six "challenge factors" provide the "summary neighborhood challenge indicator" and the "summary high school challenge indicator," according to the College Board. The six factors are college attendance, household structure, median family income, housing stability, education levels and crime. Colleges have long considered students' high schools and neighborhoods when making admissions decisions, but with more applications coming from more places, incorporating consistent information about every high school and neighborhood becomes difficult, according to college admissions officers. Colleges will receive more than 10 million applications form students attending more than 30,000 high schools. Admissions officers who tested Landscape estimate they lack high school information for about 25% of all applications, the College Board said.

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