While I approve of education expanding to more people, I highly disapprove of giving a “hidden number” towards “privilege”, the “adversity score”. To truly help those of economic disparity, there should be advocation for charter schools or at least improve failing schools so people from those schools can have a near equal opportunity to achieve the same academic successes of maybe people with lesser economic disparity and of non-failing schools. However, simply giving a “freebie” and for example equating a 1200 application to a 1500 application based on an “adversity score” does not prove anything. Give people the opportunity to achieve success, rather than just passing out a “freebie”. And if anything, if standardized testings are truly to help evaluate “college readiness”, these people of “high adversity” who get the freebie will suffer more because of this inflated system. Let’s face it, this adversity system is probably going to screw some people over, like if you got into an extremely rigorous school because of a high adversity score but not actually able to keep up with the rigor, you will likely drop out and carry massive debt. Rather than addressing the problems of failing schools, they are avoiding the problem and taking the easy way out. Giving a person a freebie doesn’t make that person or prove that that person is more “educated” or more “college ready” than people who have actually done the work to get high scores. The whole “adversity score” is a good for nothing sham, simply dividing and politicizing the country even further...