A medical school in Northern California has developed a "disadvantage scale" to select student applicants based on their "adversity scores," according to a recent New York Times report.
Dr. Mark Henderson, the associate dean of admissions at the University of California, Davis, Medical School, created the "socioeconomic disadvantage scale," also referred to as "S.E.D.," to rate applicants' adversity from zero to 99.
Student applicants are admitted into the medical school in part based on their S.E.D. scores.
