SATs go SJW - SATs will now contain secret 'adversity scores' 🚨🚨

[Kelby]

@TriggerWarning

@reflechissez

How were you privy to other’s test scores and financial aid details?

You should be in support of the adversity scores. It would have benefited you. But I guess if you want something to whine about, you can pretend that white people won’t benefit.

Our scores were known to teachers who then told everyone. There was no privacy on this stuff. We also knew from first to last the rankings of every student based on GPA as we sat in that order.

Lol, gonna go ahead and call BS on this.

Openly revealing confidential student information is just cause for termination.

[DMK]

@Axxowiz

DMK may correct me, I am conflicted on the subject as I understand the need for such programs for a time after the civil rights movement but often wonder should there be a cutoff date on these programs, and if so what determine it?

That is a question you have to determine the answer for yourself.

@Axxowiz

Tbh this isn’t a huge issue to me either way.

For me, this is an issue that has far broader tendrils than what is just on the surface.

There is a propensity for those on the left to want to create class warfare. If you are “disadvantaged” then let’s engineer advantage for you.

Except that is not the way reality works.

The person best suited for the job should be the person who receives that job regardless of their economic status or color of their skin.

The people wanting to enter academia should be accepted based on their scores, period. There should be competition to enter with the highest scores, not competition on who has the best sob story.

You cannot socially engineer fairness in life. That is what this ‘adversity score’ is attempting to do.

[SixFoot]

lol @ taking the SAT

[reflechissez]

@Axxowiz

DMK may correct me, I am conflicted on the subject as I understand the need for such programs for a time after the civil rights movement but often wonder should there be a cutoff date on these programs, and if so what determine it?

Tbh this isn’t a huge issue to me either way.

Not sure why your opinion would need correcting, but the adversity scores are not race- or gender-based. Poor white guys will benefit too.

There are lots of qualified people who don’t get into all the colleges they apply to because the competition is fierce. This scoring system will give an edge to qualified students who weren’t born with one. I’m all for it.

[reflechissez]

@DMK

@Axxowiz

DMK may correct me, I am conflicted on the subject as I understand the need for such programs for a time after the civil rights movement but often wonder should there be a cutoff date on these programs, and if so what determine it?

That is a question you have to determine the answer for yourself.

@Axxowiz

Tbh this isn’t a huge issue to me either way.

For me, this is an issue that has far broader tendrils than what is just on the surface.

There is a propensity for those on the left to want to create class warfare. If you are “disadvantaged” then let’s engineer advantage for you.

Except that is not the way reality works.

The person best suited for the job should be the person who receives that job regardless of their economic status or color of their skin.

The people wanting to enter academia should be accepted based on their scores, period. There should be competition to enter with the highest scores, not competition on who has the best sob story.

You cannot socially engineer fairness in life. That is what this ‘adversity score’ is attempting to do.

Why are you people so dramatic? If a white kid with good grades/scores from Appalachia gets a few extra points, I’m all for it. Nobody in academia is accepted “based on their scores, period.” I can’t believe I have to say this.

[DMK]

@reflechissez

Why are you people so dramatic? If a white kid with good grades/scores from Appalachia gets a few extra points, I’m all for it. Nobody in academia is accepted “based on their scores, period.” I can’t believe I have to say this.

To summarize:

Marginalize, attempt to normalize what isn’t normal, cast aspersions on anyone who isn’t on board with the program all while making yourself sound superior.

[reflechissez]

opinion noted

[TriggerWarning]

@Kelby

Lol, gonna go ahead and call BS on this.

Openly revealing confidential student information is just cause for termination.

In the 1980’s? Things were different back then. Like when one of our thirty something teachers married a senior girl two weeks after graduation and gave birth six months later (do the math) and no one batted an eye.

Right or wrong it was a different world.

We literally at graduation sat by by our class rank order. Granted I went to a small high school, my graduating class had 43 people in it, which maybe explains things.

[reflechissez]

@TriggerWarning

@Kelby

Lol, gonna go ahead and call BS on this.

Openly revealing confidential student information is just cause for termination.

In the 1980’s? Things were different back then. Like when one of our thirty something teachers married a senior girl two weeks after graduation and gave birth six months later (do the math) and no one batted an eye.

Right or wrong it was a different world.

We literally at graduation sat by by our class rank order. Granted I went to a small high school, my graduating class had 43 people in it, which maybe explains things.

Sounds like trump country.

[AZslim]

Stupid idea.

[SixFoot]

So can anyone fill me in on the point of taking the SAT or ACT? Is that like for people who “can’t” afford college to get a scholarship or something?

[Janet_Miller]

It’s supposedly a test that determines potential fitness for college work. Most universities & colleges consider SAT/ACT—if I’m not mistaken, the latter exam includes more subjects than English & math—as well as difficulty of course work, grades, & extracurricular involvement as far as whether ir not they accept a potential student.

[blueapplepaste]

Of course there are outliers. But those are the outliers. The silver spoon kid never had to worry about going to be hungry. Never had to worry about how they were getting to school. Never had to worry about the gangs shooting up their house.

Give me a break. Those poor silver spoon kids.

[Munimula1]

Race is not considered.

[SixFoot]

Strange idea, but I suppose it has its merits. I got my AA from Columbia College, where getting in is as easy as enrolling (like every community college in the country), then completed my Bachelor’s of Mathematics from Missouri S&T.

I never took some silly aptitude test, I simply enrolled and maintained honors.

[reflechissez]

@SixFoot

Strange idea, but I suppose it has its merits. I got my AA from Columbia College, where getting in is as easy as enrolling (like every community college in the country), then completed my Bachelor’s of Mathematics from Missouri S&T.

I never took some silly aptitude test, I simply enrolled and maintained honors.

You may think the tests are silly, but your school requires them today.

[SixFoot]

I graduated 18 months ago, genius. lol

[reflechissez]

@SixFoot

I graduated 18 months ago, genius. lol

So? The admissions requirements say they are required. They must be lying.

[SixFoot]

Imagine that, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

[7ranz]

@BonAppetit

The left’s war on science and statistics continues.

SATs will now contain secret 'adversity scores': Students will be rated on deprivation and crime | Daily Mail Online

SAT scores will now have secret “adversity scores”, and will be given additional points for factors such as having English as a second language and being the child of a single parent, or living in an area with high crime.

Are you an Asian-American, born to parents who raised you speaking English, who worked hard to give you good educational opportunities? Too bad, because that “dreamer” who is a gang member and who was raised by a single mother now has a higher ‘adversity score’, meaning he will be taking your place!

America’s educational system has gone nuts, and now is now actively punishing people for having English as their native language or for having a mother and father.

lol. Knowing two languages is cheating!