Who needs actual achievement when your address is the "context"?!!-----Yet Another Bad Admissions Idea

The College Board’s “Landscape” tool is terrible news for admissions fairness. Graham Hillard

• Leigh made a 34 on the ACT. 
• Bill made a 23. 

Which of the two do you want attending your academically selective college? ...

Yet, following the logic of Landscape, the College Board’s quietly insidious “contextualization” resource, admissions officers may find themselves shunting Leigh aside in Bill’s favor.

Developed in 2018 and broadly available since 2020, Landscape is a free admissions dashboard that allows decision makers to “consider each student within the context of where they’ve learned and lived.”...