[ExI] sat in jail

[William Flynn Wallace]

Adversity points is an abomination.  Now it's the administrators who are
cheating, not the students. bill w

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 12:54 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] sat in jail
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> They were charged too. A decent summary can be found in Wikipedia:
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> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_bribery_scandal
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> I don't think there’s anything special about this particular bribery
> incident. I don’t think it’s any graver a “sin” than other corruption
> either…Dan
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> Dan this one really has my attention.  Since I deal with the local schools
> as a volunteer for Science Olympiad, Codeo and American Math Competition, I
> am well aware of the youthful lives of the super-competitive in academic
> and SAT as a competition sport crowd.
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> Recently it was revealed that there was a mysterious adversity index,
> which is added to one’s SAT score in some admissions processes.  Since
> students carefully study their SAT practice tests and note their weak
> areas, along with estimates of the time commitment to get extra score, they
> wanted to know exactly what is required to score additional adversity
> points.  Is race considered for instance?  What evidence is required to
> establish that?  Is DNA evidence alone sufficient, or must one be told by
> one’s family the traditional (and usually incorrect) notions on one’s
> ethnicity?  If one is told by one’s parents of native American ancestry for
> instance, is that sufficient?  How many adversity points is that worth?
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> This one hits close to home on many levels.  The big prize is admission to
> Stanford.  It isn’t just because of its prestige, but also because it is a
> really nice campus, in a safe area, and it is close to home for a lot of
> people.  Stanford undergrad admission is a huge prize.  If students need to
> arrange for adversity, this is within the realm of reality.  That’s way
> easier and safer than cheating on the SAT.
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