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SAT Adds 'Adversity Score' To Rate Student Hardships

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May 21, 2019
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The College Board, the company behind the SAT exams, announced that it will assign a score that will take into account students’ social and economic background.

The adversity score, which uses a scale of one through 100, will rate a student’s level of disadvantage by using 15 factors — including information on the student’s school, and data on their neig…

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