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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do they even need the data? They should get rid of it all.

Though as someone else said, if you aren't smart enough to drop it in your essay ("As president of my school's black students association..."), you aren't smart enough to go to the school.[/quote]

Exactly!
My kids are Black and they will work it all day long.   [/quote]

My kids cited their background/ culture in essays from an inspirational standpoint. That's allowed.  However,  they had 4.0+ GPAs and 1500+ scores too.

The elites schools will get the best URMs.

Ignorant people think just saying you're black in an essay will get you into Harvard.[/quote]

There's less than 1000 black students with a 1500 SAT score.  I don't think people think these are the kids that don't belong at top schools.  But a black student with a scooter in the 1300s probably shouldn't be there.  [/quote]

Roughly 1100 black students scored 1500+ in 2005. In 2005 less than 50% of all high school students took the SAT. In 2024 it was around 75%.

I couldn't find actual data for 2024 but I suspect that now, 20 years later, there are many, many more than 1000.

For what it is worth my cousin spent THOUSANDS on SAT prep for her daughter. She got a 1500. But that was 100% prep. The girl dropped out of school first year.

SAT is just one test from one day in their life. It is not the whole story.

Finally - schools haven't seen the race data for two years. If you see black kids accepted to top schools maybe it is because they are strong students with the stats to prove it[/quote]

Schools have imperfect information that they are using to try and achieve their racial diversity goals.

Also this from another thread. 
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Let's do the math. In 2022 the SAT test taker demographics were as follows (from https://reports.collegebo...report.pdf)

175,468 Asians
201,645 Black/African Americans
396,422 Hispanic/Latino
732,946 White

In 2020, the percentage of takers getting a 1500+/1400+ (respectively) by race were:

9%/23% of Asians
<1%/1% of Black/African Americans
<1%/2% of Hispanics/Latinos
2%/7% of Whites

That means that among the pool of people getting 1500/1400+ (rounding <1% to 0.5%):

15,792/40,357 are Asian
1,008/2,016 are Black
1,982/7,928 are Hispanic
14,658/51,306 are White

Do what you will with this information.[/quote]
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I can't access the link you shared but find it very hard to believe that there are an average of 20 students from each state that are African American and scored over 1500. [/quote]

Correct.

And there are hundreds from each state scoring 1400+.

High GPA , good ECs, etc. with 1400+ scores will result in admission to top schools.

Because a random white or Asian may have scored higher on one standardized test is irrelevant. That's not how college admissions work. Blacks , who are [b]underrepresented [/b], can go to the top schools too and can do the work.

1300+ can go to top SLACs.

If some don't like this, oh well.

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Underrepresented based on race, overrepresented based on academic qualifications.  Which one of those criteria should you use for college admissions?[/quote]

Underrepresented based on race with the requisite academic stats, test scores, and ECs to warrant admission.

Holistic admissions,  buddy.

Start your own college if you don't like it.[/quote]

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