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After mentioning that The Washington Post Co. owns Stanley Kaplan, the expensive SAT test-prep company, a WP editorial dismisses ETS's new "Striver" category as "troubling."
An opposing opinion claims striver scoring would entrench the fallacy that "demography is destiny."
USA Today puts the SAT info, including a discussion of the new "striver" scoring system written up in yesterday's Wall Street Journal , in its top-of-the-page "talker" position, and leads with Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers' announcement that in light of the Russian banking scandal, the United States would not support further IMF credits for Russia until there has been an adequate accounting of the money already lent there.
The idea is to incorporate certain sociological background factors-- such as English isn't his/her first language, he/she went to a crappy high school, is from a poor family etc.--about the student, to come up with a likely score range for him or her, and if the person's actual score exceeds the likely one by at least 200 points, then the applicant is identified by admissions personnel as in the valued category of "Striver."
One piece argues that "striver" scoring is a rational statistical tool for achieving the worthy goal of admitting more non-Asian minorities to elite colleges.