SAT Adversity Score. Will It Help or Hurt Black Students. Black Entrepreneur Speaks out

Rich Students vs Poor Students — SAT Scores and Race — there are a LOT of things I want to weigh into, but I don’t because they’re politically too hot for ME to publicly talk about and not worth my time to debate them.

HOWEVER, The WSJ (and zillions of others) recently wrote about how the SAT tests will be weighed by “adversity” — https://www.wsj.com/…/sat-to-give-students-adversity-score-….

So if you’re a black kid and your school and other indicators are all on the “up and up”, your score will be weighted relative to a white kid who grew up in a “bad” part of town and had other social things going against you.

I TOTALLY GET THIS.

We want to level the playing field for education. I get it.

The SAT SCORE is a NUMBER and we want colleges to know that this kid might have had a low score but they have POTENTIAL and are SMART!

However, my concern is that this system will KEEP “disadvantaged” kids disadvantaged for their entire life.

This rat race of “COLLEGE SCORES” — angers me.

Indeed, JODI gets a relative LOW SAT SCORE and JAMIE gets a relatively high one.

JODI had parents who beat her and she had roaches and rats in her crappy apartment.

JAMIE lived on the Upper West side of Manhattan and had a (seemingly) perfect little life.

I GET IT.

We want to still give JODI a chance.

But guess what?

Although, Jodi might have an initially tougher way to go, SUCCESS CAN STILL HAPPEN.

Immigrants do it all the time.

They come from some “sucky” country with a “sucky” way of life, they don’t know English, drive Uber or get abused in a minimum wage job washing dishes and then they become the CEO of YOUR company or get a great job in any other position in our wonderful America.

My point being — INDEED — WE black Americans have an HISTORICAL imbalance vs our WHITE Americans.

I KNOW THIS.

However, at some point, generationally MUST WE NOT CHANGE OUR MINDSET.

LIFE IS NOT EASY. IT IS NEVER FAIR. There are winners and there are LOSERS.

Some succeed, Some fail.

Some cheat, some don’t. Some die, some live.

However, we have seen ENOUGH STORIES where GOOD CHARACTER, HARD WORD and a SKILL, will win in the end. Be the BEST at something.

Maybe I’m missing something. But I am so tired of us LOWERING STANDARDS so others can rise. INSTEAD we should be HELPING people RAISE THEIR STANDARDS and THRIVE. Am I missing something?

Tiger Woods showed this so well. He just KEPT GOING and KEPT GOING.