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New 'Adversity Score' Added to SAT----another college/univ. admissions scandal?
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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3235549" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>I hate to break it to you, but graduate programs have been doing this for a long time. They do it because overcoming adversity is an indicator of success in the program; you have a pretty good idea that a student with a high GPA and high test score will do well, but what about the student whose grades went in the crapper for a couple of semesters because he had to take care of an ailing family member?</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure that rolling what needs to be a qualitative decision into a quantitative score is a good idea, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3235549, member: 26737"] I hate to break it to you, but graduate programs have been doing this for a long time. They do it because overcoming adversity is an indicator of success in the program; you have a pretty good idea that a student with a high GPA and high test score will do well, but what about the student whose grades went in the crapper for a couple of semesters because he had to take care of an ailing family member? I'm not sure that rolling what needs to be a qualitative decision into a quantitative score is a good idea, though. [/QUOTE]
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