Taking A Deep Dive Into the College Board’s New Adversity Score

parentologist
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 03:12:13 +0000

Not that I like this adversity score business, but there are kids in my town’s high school that come from extreme poverty (public housing project type poverty), and there are kids who come from multi-million dollar homes, driving BMWs to school! Overall, the town is considered fairly snooty-wealthy, but I think about 20% of the students get free lunch. How can a geographically based adversity score possibly fairly reflect the very different socioeconomic circumstances of the different kids at such a high school? This is ridiculous.