My Prediction of The Next New Thing: Rich Renting "Accommodation" Addresses to Boost Kids' Adversity Scores
Combine two recent news stories:
- The College Board is going to report an "adversity score" to colleges for each of its test-takers. I believe that the woke intend this to be sort of the inverse of a "privilege" measurement. This will almost certainly be based at lot on the child's address, since self-reported data on "adversity" would be too easy to game
- In the recent college admissions scandal, rich parents demonstrated they were willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars not to just game the admissions system, but to outright cheat it.
The obvious hack for this is for parents to buy or lease an empty room somewhere in a high adversity zip code and report this as their child's address. To get away with this, probably will need to have also given this address to the school, which might be hard for public schools but is perfectly possible at a private school. "Ah, Ms. Huffman, what was it like growing up in Watts?" I am sure there are already folks gearing up to sell this service.
Middle class kids in good public schools will likely end up with the worst adversity scores.
