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    New 'Adversity Score' a Backdoor to Racial Quotas

    The College Board plans to introduce a new “adversity score” as a backdoor to racial quotas in college admissions.

    For decades, the College Board defended the SAT, which it writes and administers, against charges that the test gives an unfair advantage to middle-class white students. No longer. Under relentless pressure from the racial-preferences lobby, the Board has now caved to the anti-meritocratic ideology of “diversity.” The Board will calculate for each SAT-taker an “adversity score” that purports to measure a student’s socioeconomic position, according to the Wall Street Journal. Colleges can use this adversity index to boost the admissions ranking of allegedly disadvantaged students who otherwise would score too poorly to be considered for admission.

    Advocates of this change claim that it is not about race. That is a fiction. In fact, the SAT adversity score is simply the latest response on the part of mainstream institutions to the seeming intractability of the racial academic-achievement gap. If that gap did not exist, the entire discourse about “diversity” would evaporate overnight. The average white score on the SAT (1,123 out of a possible 1,600) is 177 points higher than the average black score (946), approximately a standard deviation of difference. This gap has persisted for decades. It is not explained by socioeconomic disparities. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education reported in 1998 that white students from households with incomes of $10,000 or less score better on the SAT than black students from households with incomes of $80,000 to $100,000. In 2015, students with family incomes of $20,000 or less (a category that includes all racial groups) scored higher on average on the math SAT than the average math score of black students from all income levels. The University of California has calculated that race predicts SAT scores better than class.

    Those who rail against “white privilege” as a determinant of academic achievement have a nagging problem: Asians. Asian students outscore white students on the SAT by 100 points; they outscore blacks by 277 points. It is not Asian families’ economic capital that vaults them to the top of the academic totem pole; it is their emphasis on scholarly effort and self-discipline. Every year in New York City, Asian elementary school students vastly outperform every other racial and ethnic group on the admissions test for the city’s competitive public high schools, even though a disproportionate number of them come from poor immigrant families.

    Colleges pay lip service to socioeconomic diversity, but that concept is inevitably a surrogate for race. Colleges have repeatedly rejected admissions schemes that purport to substitute socioeconomic preferences for racial preferences, on the ground that those socioeconomic schemes do not yield enough “underrepresented minorities.” Harvard admits richer black students with a lower academic ranking over poorer but more qualified white and Asian applicants; it admits more than two times as many middle-class blacks as “disadvantaged” blacks and confers no admissions preference to disadvantaged blacks compared with their non-disadvantaged racial peers.

    The SAT’s critics notwithstanding, no alternative measure of student capacity exists that better predicts student success. “Leadership,” “character,” “persistence”—all these earlier attempts to come up with a more politically palatable proxy for racial preferences are far less valid as a measure of academic capacity than the SAT. The College Board’s “adversity score” will be no different. And it will subject its alleged beneficiaries to the same problem as overt racial preferences—academic mismatch. Students admitted to a selective college with significantly weaker academic credentials than the school norm will, on average, struggle to keep up in their classes. Many will switch out of demanding majors like the STEM fields; a significant portion will drop out of college entirely. Had those artificially preferred students enrolled in a college for which they were academically prepared, like their non-preferred peers, they would have a much higher chance of graduating in their chosen field of study. There is no shame or handicap in graduating from a non-elite college. The proponents of racial preferences, like all “woke” advocates, claim to be against privilege. Yet those anti-privilege warriors adopt a blatantly elitist view of college, holding, in essence, that attending a name-brand college is the only route to life success.

    The College Board’s adversity score will give students a boost for coming from a high-crime, high-poverty school and neighborhood, according to the Wall Street Journal. Being raised by a single parent will also be a plus factor. Such a scheme penalizes the bourgeois values that make for individual and community success.

    The solution to the academic achievement gap lies in cultural change, not in yet another attack on a meritocratic standard. Black parents need to focus as relentlessly as Asian parents on their children’s school attendance and performance. They need to monitor homework completion and grades. Academic achievement must no longer be stigmatized as “acting white.” And a far greater percentage of black children must be raised by both their mother and their father, to ensure the socialization that prevents classrooms from turning into scenes of chaos and violence.

    At present, thanks to racial preferences, many black high school students know that they don’t need to put in as much scholarly effort as non-“students of color” to be admitted to highly competitive colleges. The adversity score will only reinforce that knowledge. That is not a reality conducive to life achievement. The only guaranteed beneficiaries of this new scheme are the campus diversity bureaucrats. They have been given another assurance of academically handicapped students who can be leveraged into grievance, more diversity sinecures, and lowered academic standards.
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

  • #2
    That sort of thing (I'm thinking more socioeconomic position than race) should be considered for scholarships, not for admission. It's reasonable to want to give a bright student who comes from a poor family assistance in paying for their education. But if the money barrier is gone, I don't see why they would need additional help in getting in in the first place.
    "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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    • #3
      Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
      That sort of thing (I'm thinking more socioeconomic position than race) should be considered for scholarships, not for admission. It's reasonable to want to give a bright student who comes from a poor family assistance in paying for their education. But if the money barrier is gone, I don't see why they would need additional help in getting in in the first place.
      Yeah!
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • #4
        Law firms tend to be very committed to diversity, and at lower levels they're pretty diverse. However, people admitted based on diversity tend to be less effective at writing legal arguments crucial to winning a case, so they're given fewer opportunities to do so. As a result, the upper ranks at law firms are not nearly as diverse, because promotion has to be merit-based if the law firm wants to survive.
        Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

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        • #5
          I work a lot of cooperate events, and I find it ironic that the "chief diversity officer" at the vast majority of companies are black women. That doesn't seem particularly diverse.
          Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
          But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
          Than a fool in the eyes of God


          From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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          • #6
            subsidizing intelligence?
            That's what
            - She

            Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
            - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

            I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
            - Stephen R. Donaldson

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            • #7
              Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
              That sort of thing (I'm thinking more socioeconomic position than race) should be considered for scholarships, not for admission. It's reasonable to want to give a bright student who comes from a poor family assistance in paying for their education. But if the money barrier is gone, I don't see why they would need additional help in getting in in the first place.
              agreed. Underprivileged and poor students need financial help.

              But this whole SAT thing seems racist.

              The point of the SAT score is how intelligent and ready for college a student is. If they just let in students with low scores, then what's the point of having the test in the first place?

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              • #8
                Or where a person has lower scores that really have been induced by circumstances, use the "adversity scores" to run them through a bridging course so that they can get up to speed on the real academic requirements, perhaps.
                1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
                .
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                Scripture before Tradition:
                but that won't prevent others from
                taking it upon themselves to deprive you
                of the right to call yourself Christian.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by tabibito View Post
                  Or where a person has lower scores that really have been induced by circumstances, use the "adversity scores" to run them through a bridging course so that they can get up to speed on the real academic requirements, perhaps.
                  Bridging courses, as you term them, are common at colleges these days, because a high school education so often does not sufficiently prepare a student for the next level.
                  Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

                  Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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                  I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                    Bridging courses, as you term them, are common at colleges these days, because a high school education so often does not sufficiently prepare a student for the next level.
                    Some of the more affluent high schools around here are now offering intensive pre-career study programs, such as aerospace engineering. I know of one student who intended to study that at Embry-Riddle, and was told not to enter the program in high school because the professors would just end up re-teaching everything the high school program got wrong.
                    "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                    • #11
                      We need to stop pushing college as the only path. Half of the kids who graduate college can't get jobs and are in debt for the rest of their lives. Trade schools and apprenticeships are another path. Much less cost and you can get into very well paying careers.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                        We need to stop pushing college as the only path. Half of the kids who graduate college can't get jobs and are in debt for the rest of their lives. Trade schools and apprenticeships are another path. Much less cost and you can get into very well paying careers.
                        That too.
                        1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
                        .
                        ⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛
                        Scripture before Tradition:
                        but that won't prevent others from
                        taking it upon themselves to deprive you
                        of the right to call yourself Christian.

                        ⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛

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                        • #13
                          College is overrated.

                          -a college graduate
                          I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                            We need to stop pushing college as the only path. Half of the kids who graduate college can't get jobs and are in debt for the rest of their lives. Trade schools and apprenticeships are another path. Much less cost and you can get into very well paying careers.
                            My 2 girls just graduated, one with a BS and one with a BA. Neither has even a prospect of a job. And the BA grad says that her college lists those who graduated and their current job... only 8% have jobs in their field.
                            That's what
                            - She

                            Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
                            - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

                            I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
                            - Stephen R. Donaldson

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
                              My 2 girls just graduated, one with a BS and one with a BA. Neither has even a prospect of a job. And the BA grad says that her college lists those who graduated and their current job... only 8% have jobs in their field.
                              Unfortunately, many employers will look at that degree and think, "hmmm... overqualified... NEXT!"
                              The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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