SAT's new 'adversity score' raising fears of increasing discrimination

The College Board, the US nonprofit organization that develops the SAT, plans to assign an "adversity score" to every student taking its test to balance disparities in social and economic backgrounds, but it's raising fears among some Asian-Americans about increased discrimination in college admissions.

Officially known as the "Overall Disadvantage Level", the new score is an attempt to give colleges and universities a tool to admit a more diverse student body. It has been applied by about 50 schools in the United States in an initial test and will be expanded to another 150 this year.

At least one Asian-American group has doubts about how the adversity score will be used.