On Aug. 27, the College Board altered its plan to assign an “adversity score” to students during the college admissions process. Instead of calculating a single score for students’ supposed relative advantage or disadvantage, the organization plans to capture a student’s socioeconomic background “using multiple data points.”

The question remains whether the replacement tool — a different version of its “Environmental Context Dashboard,” now called “Landscape” — is really any different from the original so-called “adversity score” that many conservatives found so objectionable.