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

gardenstategal
Sun, 09 Jun 2019 22:31:17 +0000

@roethlisburger , only kinda. Class rank measures how well a kid did in classes graded in a way that we don’t know and is based on weighting we may not understand. It may be valuable in one regard. If a kid got an A+ in a class and a 3 on the AP exam, there are a lot of conclusions you can draw (and most, imo, are not so favorable to that student.) But if you see that the school’s average AP score is 1.2, you might see that differently. How that SAT or AP score compares to others measures something else.

Kids at selective high schools may get into great colleges being at the 50% mark for their class. Why do colleges accept those kids? Because they understand the context of their grades and academic environment. At many lower performing schools, the colleges don’t know the context. I don’t think that providing that is a problem. A college may still decide that a kid, regardless of potential, is inadequately prepared for their environment. It isn’t a score adjustment. It’s an additional profile not prepared by the school and prepared in a way that is consistent across schools.