When students send colleges their SAT scores in coming years, the admissions office might also get another number that rates the level of adversity applicants typically face — or privilege they enjoy — based on crime and poverty data and other demographic information about neighborhoods and high schools.

The “overall disadvantage level,” known in admission circles as the “adversity score,” will be a single number from 1 to 100. With 50 set as the average, under a formula established by the College Board, higher scores will indicate higher adversity. Colleges that use it will see the number on a template called an “environmental context dashboard,” which also includes data on Advanced Placement participation and SAT scores at the applicant’s high school. – “Coming Soon, An Adversity Score” Washington Post, 5/16/19

100-91 

  • Survived a school shooting.
  • Parents dead. (Non-Batman.)
  • Mugged on the way to test.
  • Super Puerto Rican.

90-81

  • Absent the day of school shooting.
  • Share bedroom with more than three coyotes.
  • Eyes real close together and no upper lip.
  • Normal Puerto Rican.

80-71

  • Taught to read wrong as a joke.
  • Unfortunate birthmark.
  • Those with Dourif Syndrome. (Sufferers of Dourif Syndrome remind those around them of Brad Dourif, but not in a good way.)
  • Wrong kind of Asian.

70-61

  • Lefties.
  • If you show up for the SAT barefoot and in overalls, and then stop by the hardware store to pick up a few yards of gingham afterwards, you get 75 adversity points.
  • Family members in prison.
  • Good kind of Asian.

60-51

  • Really rich, snotty South American kids who play polo.
  • Been bitten by a dog (any size) that broke the skin.
  • Family members in prison for insider trading or money laundering or that type of shit.
  • Live within a mile of a check-cashing place.

50-41

  • Owns used Kia, but had to pay for it themselves.
  • Both parents in the house, but they may hate each other.
  • Could differentiate between a jetty and a pier.
  • Live within a mile of a Target.

40-31

  • Parents purchased used Kia, but has to pay for insurance/gas.
  • Smile that lights up the room.
  • Access to a swimming pool.
  • Live within a mile of other homes, exclusively.

30-21

  • Parents paid for new Kia, and cover the insurance and gas.
  • Been skiing.
  • Wrong kind of white. (Jewish, Catholic.)
  • Live within a mile of no one at all.

20-11

  • Parents paid for Mercedes, etc.
  • Traveled to a foreign country.
  • Right kind of white. (Protestant, but not Southern Baptist.)
  • Live within a mile of several different locations, depending on the season.

10-1

  • Parents pay for Aviv, who is ex-Mossad, to drive you around in an Suburban.
  • Traveled to a foreign country specifically for the purposes of skiing.
  • Best kind of white. (Wealthy.)
  • On the advice of your accountant, legally have no residence.