SAT scores are good predictors of college success, which is why they were developed. Adversity scores will be good indications of college failure — if you need a high adversity score to get in, the odds are very high that you will fail out of college.

The “diversity” push — more properly known as racial discrimination — does grave harm to many of the people it seeks to help, by admitting them into harder colleges than they are read for. This effect is easily measured by looking at their much higher dropout rates.

At the same time, this insane push for diversity, which is just a way around court rulings preventing frank racial discrimination, creates cynicism and a feeling of unfairness in those who are discriminated against.

A couple of decades ago, I saw a group of young, smart white and Asian college bound kids turn instantly bitter, and some racist, when they saw peers who were far less academically qualified get into top schools due only to their race. One Asian family, knowing their kid would be discriminated against, changed their suname to a Hispanic name, and their smart kid got instant early admission to CalTech, while those who didn’t use that trick did not.

Let’s get people into college where it will do them the most good.

And, let’s also quit requiring college degrees for jobs that shouldn’t require them. A college degree has become a signifier of one who put up with college even as the person learned nothing of use on the job, and this trend accelerated when employers were not allowed to use direct tests of aptitude for jobs because of claims of discrimination. Those degrees are paid for with large amounts of borrowed money, and are often a complete waste of both money and time.