As far as the SAT adversity score… not sure what to do about it, or I’d anything needs to be done with it. I am sure there will be lawsuits over it.
While preference might be given to students attending a ghetto school in a ghetto area, you probably don’t want to send your kid there either because you don’t want your kid to get shot or killed.
However, I do think this adversity score will hurt more families that arent well off than those that are.
I can’t think of many of my kids friendsthat were renting in Carmel Valley because they wanted to be in a better school distric, and they were qualified for federal housing assistance..Those kids, presumably , would get the same adversity score as my kid if the way it was determined was by geography… Richer parents are always going to find a way to get around these stupid things if they really wanted to , because they have more financial resources at their disposal to do this. Maybe a market for an elite private school in a ghetto area, that includes armed guard transportation such that the kid school registration is in a ghetto area with better adversity score…just thinking aloud.
anyway the guy who runs college board now and came up with adversity scoring is the same guy that architected common core…. So go figure.
Me? I’ve come to the realization that my kid probably won’t get the maximum benefit from going to an Ivy League school like I went to versus a good public college, irrespective of the current overall good academic performance… What I don’t want to happen is spend $500k+ of my own money to send my kid to such a school, only for them to graduate directionless like many kids these days are, or major in something like conversational linguistics that at most have job prospects of something only requiring you to say “you want fries with that?” So assuming even if my kid can get in, which is a big assumption, my kid would need to get a full ride. The good news is that in this country, as opposed to countries like China, not getting into an elite school is not doom or gloom and a life ending thing. Work ethics and generally not being a lazy bum can get you pretty far in this country….(and in some cases once you have established yourself, you can be a lazy bum and still get paid a lot of the work you barely do, as is the current case for me)…
I went to an elite school and it didn’t necessarily make things better or worse than my peers that went to a good state school, given the profession I picked. Back then, my education only cost $90k total. These days, that’s what it’s going to cost year per year if your kid doesn’t get a full ride.. Given the cost, and how some of these schools are anti-asian with their discriminatory admissions process, I’d rather put my money into a school that wants it…or real estate that my kid can inherit it so that if my kid wanted to pursue a conversation linguistics major or any other “unemployable college major”, my kid could without consequences to her future financial well being and end up being a social burden to everyone else because hopefully my kid wont need to count on both federal and state assistance , so those that really do need it(those kids and family that were just born into an unlucky situation)can get it.
