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The New SAT ‘Adversity Score’: Opening a Can of Worms

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The New SAT ‘Adversity Score’: Opening a Can of Worms
Carol McMullen-Pettit, a Premier Tutor at The Princeton Review, (L) goes over SAT test preparation with 11th grader, Suzane Nazir, on March 6, 2014 in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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The cheating scandal earlier this spring, in which parents resorted to all sorts of desperate and unethical measures to have their children accepted into elite colleges, underscored how highly prized are the scarce places in our country’s top schools.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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