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Tag: college board

Posted inJulianne Malveaux, Op-Ed, Opinion

MALVEAUX: Forget the Adversity Score — Just Dump the SAT

by WI Guest Author May 22, 2019December 21, 2021

The fact that the College Board has had to create an “adversity score” is reason enough to discard the badly flawed SAT test, a test that many consider racially biased, and that only measures the likelihood of first-year college success.

From left: Students Matthew Blue, Autumn Loss and Edson Leyva were surprised Oct. 18 with $40,000 College Board Opportunity Scholarships on "Good Morning America." (Courtesy of GMA/Collegeboard.org)
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