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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's amazing how all of these schools are just FULL of students of color and no white people, right?

Students of color face certain barriers in and out of the classroom, even those coming from privilege. White people often want to comfort themselves by pointing to SAT scores in this argument, but we all know quite well that admissions decisions aren't about test scores, but about the whole package.[/quote]

The data points laid bare for Harvard are a little overblown in my mind. I think the difference for black students was something like 60 SAT points? How that one data point becomes a blanket indicted of all URMs is what is sad.

Here is the actual breakdown, and the data is not even from the last five years and is JUST for Harvard:

Average SAT score across all sections (1995-2013)
Asians - 767
White - 745
Hispanic - 718
Native Americans - 712
African Americans - 704

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/22/asian-american-admit-sat-scores/

What is frustrating to me as an African American person with a kid at an Ivy is why aren't people asking why this disparity exists and dealing with it. I can tell you from my recent experience that the cohort of black students are not all poor, under-resourced students. Many come from two-parent households with decent incomes and the whole nine-yards of support you would expect from high-achieving students. Why aren't we asking more sophisticated questions instead of reducing students down to a single data-point?

Also too the numbers of URM students, especially black students is pretty small. I don't understand how a single test score make you unworthy of attending these schools. My kid is excelling in college and had admission test scores in the middle 50%.

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60 x 2 is 120 points. That is substantial [/quote]

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