#contextual-data

#contextual-data

Indeed, the announcement by the College Board last month that it was discontinuing Landscape, a tool that provided admissions officers with data about a student's high school and neighborhood- including median family income, local college-going rates and school resources-was so alarming because it marks a pivot in selective college admissions away from understanding students' achievements in the context of their backgrounds and toward judging everyone by standardized metrics like GPA and test scores.