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Diversity vs Adversity
The recent SCOTUS decision on affirmative action reminded me of an interesting controversy that ultimately fizzled out back before plague times. What ever happened to the "Adversity Score" that was going to be a new part of the college admissions process? The stated goal of the initiative was to wholistically analyze all sources of oppression that the individual applicant faced in their lifetime and spit out a single number to summarize the results. For added fun, the score would be available to college admissions boards, but not to the applicant. Apparently it died ignominiously, but it did provide some kind of framework to identify disadvantaged students without using race for a proxy. Myself, I trust any admissions policy approved by college admissions boards the same way I view healthcare policies approved by the healthcare industry. Still, it was an intriguing concept... Do recent events at the Supreme Court make you think any differently about this sort of admissions process? Boiled down, do you think there is a place for considering a student's history of adversity as context for their standardized test results in college applications? Further reading: https://blog.collegevine.com/sat-will-give-students-adversity-score-what-does-that-mean/
Future for Vivek
At this point it seems like Vivek's run for President has been a success in that he is polling in the mid single digits and not at 1%. If you were Vivek how would you look to take this success and carry it forward? Would you try and get a position within a possible Trump admin, run for a lower level office, write some more books, or further pursue the media space through something like a podcast. I'm interested to hear how best you think he can avoid the fate of someone like Yang who it feels has lost a lot of his relevency since his presidential run.