College Board Bows to Pressure to Release Pupil Adversity Scores
- Board will make socio-economic scores available to families
- Landscape scores give colleges context in judging applicants
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The College Board’s measures of the socio-economic backgrounds of university applicants will be made available to students and families, ending a controversy over the secrecy of the scores.
The so-called Landscape measures are created by the College Board and are aimed at providing universities with deeper insight into a student’s neighborhood and school, the organization said in a statement Tuesday. The scores are calculated based on factors such as the school’s location, the percentage of students eligible for free lunch, the average number of Advanced Placement exams taken and the median family income in a neighborhood.