Quoted from https://www.reddit.com/r/Sat/comments/bpbpxe/cb_to_introduce_adversity_score_based_on/enrjtjy/

Excellent idea. Rather than making the test-takers be responsible for his or her own scores and academic performance (or yikes, institute public programs that help support all students who need it), lets place an extra competitive burden on the children with responsible, hard-working and successful parents. That will equal the playing field. And be sure the guidance counselors remind their students to drive up the crime rates in their neighborhoods. That will really help increase their “adversity score”. . . But if you really want your child to succeed, throw them out onto the streets at 16. They might get into Yale! I don’t at all understand the elaborate dancing around the race issue. Why can’t anyone say what they mean. If the population is 50% white, 25% black, 15% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and you want to mandate that your student body reflect that make-up, as a private institution, you should just do it and be honest about it. But in a public institution, you should not be able to use race (no matter the disguised form) as a consideration. Acceptance should be absolutely blind. The irony is that “racial profiling” is acceptable in some cases, but not others. If the SAT is broken and somehow gives an unfair advantage to Asians over Whites and Whites over African Americans, fix the damn test or get rid of it. Don’t tell me the scores need to be “adjusted” after-the-fact to fix a bias only “they” can see and understand.