The U-turn comes among increasing concerns that the higher education system is actually reinforcing inequalities.
The College Board said Tuesday it will revise plans for its “landscape” score for test takers, aimed to measure their socioeconomic background.
‘The resource will no longer display a single “score” combining high school and neighborhood information.’ —The College Board statement The College Board released new details on how “Landscape” works, including a description of the data, methodology, and appropriate usage guidelines that participating colleges must follow. “Beginning next year, schools, students, and families will be able to see the same information about high schools and neighborhoods that colleges see,” it said.
• It does not replace the individual information included in an application, such as GPA, personal essay, or high school transcript. Admissions officers using the ‘Landscape’ estimate they lack high-school information for about 25% of all applications. Several colleges, including the University of Chicago, have decided to make these standardized tests optional in their admissions criteria amid concerns that the tests provide an edge to privileged students.
A lot of data on students is already available to the colleges through other parts of the application, like a student’s financial-aid form. In some cases, that information can even tip the scale towards wealthier students who can afford to pay a college’s full price, said Faith Sandler, the executive director of the Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis, which works with low-income students applying to college.
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