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" ... The number also had the potential, one supposes, for giving colleges some cover when it was used in the course of accepting "underprepared," and usually non-white students: "It's data, for goodness' sake! We didn't do it arbitrarily! Look at the numbers!" Numbers can be comforting that way. They feel scientific and absolute; they tell us what we need to know without messy opinions or prejudices getting in the way. Colleges would be able to point to their admitted class's adversity score results instead of listing the number of minority students, which could either be embarrassingly low or high enough to rile wealthy white majoritarians who think they've been cheated out of something. Seems so much cleaner and more defensible to do it this way. ... "