College Board says it is replacing SAT 'adversity score'

(AP) The company that administers the SAT college admissions test is replacing the so-called adversity score with a tool that will no longer reduce an applicant's background to a single number, an idea that the College Board's chief executive now says was a mistake. Amid growing scrutiny of the role wealth plays in college admissions, the College Board introduced its Environmental Context Dashboard about two years ago to provide context for a student's performance on the test and help schools identify those who have done more with less.But critics called it an overreach for the College Board to score adversity the way it does academics. David Coleman, College Board's chief executive, said some also wrongly worried the tool would alter the SAT results. "The idea of a single score was wrong,'' he said. ``It was confusing and created the misperception that the indicators are specific to an individual student.''