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Colleges and universities either prohibited by law from factoring race into admissions decisions, or those that prefer a subtler approach to admitting applicants based on race, do so by measuring personality, leadership qualities, life experiences, creativity, resilience, and other "noncognitive" factors.
According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, some schools claim that using noncognitive assessments are improving minorities' odds of admission. No kidding? Northeastern University in Boston has gone so far as to develop the Torch Scholars Program to assess "leadership potential" and evaluate how an applicant has "overcome adversity." As expected, average SAT scores for the...
Noncognitive Assessment Farce
Well, let me offer and authentically Black or Urban explanation:
"Ah doan no if ya no it or not buur we was disadvantaged wonce, an wen ah say we ah doan mean I per se, it was ma ancestors, buur as ya no it's goan take us some time to ketch up cuz we was, not me per see was disenfranchised axe Sharpton an Micheal Eric Dyson. Yo! Yo!, yo leh me shoutout to ma man Sharptone, NO JUST-US NO PIECE.
Leh me sing a kneegro spiritual an watch how dee playing field get mahgik-cally lehvull, wonce ah start tuh sing watch how dem rug rats SAT's scores start tuh mahgik-cally rise and dey doan hav tuh...