"Earlier this month, College Board announced its decision to kill Landscape, a race-neutral tool that allowed admissions readers to better understand a student's context for opportunity. After an awkward 2019 rollout as the " Adversity Score," Landscape gradually gained traction in many selective admissions offices. Among other items, the dashboard provided information on the applicant's high school, including the economic makeup of their high school class, participation trends for Advanced Placement courses and the school's percentile SAT scores, as well as information about the local community."
"Landscape was one of the more extensively studied interventions in the world of college admissions, reflecting how providing more information about an applicant's circumstances can boost the likelihood of a low-income student being admitted. Admissions officers lack high-quality, detailed information on the high school environment for an estimated 25 percent of applicants, a trend that disproportionately disadvantages low-income students. Landscape helped fill that critical gap."
Landscape provided a standardized dashboard with high-school and local-community data, including class economic makeup, AP participation trends, and percentile SAT scores. The tool aimed to give admissions officers context missing for roughly 25 percent of applicants, a gap that disproportionately hurt low-income students. Studies showed providing more information about applicant circumstances could increase low-income students' admission chances. Landscape gained traction in selective admissions offices despite an awkward 2019 rollout as the Adversity Score. College Board cited evolving federal and state policy on using demographic and geographic information in admissions when deciding to end the tool.
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