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[quote=Anonymous]^^But the article posted #1 is from 1998. Also it does not state that black kids with 200-400 points lower than white kids are getting into Ivy League schools.  That's the evidence I want to see.

I think it has been proven that black kids even of higher SES score lower but I will maintain that there are enough black students within a reasonable range who are admitted to top schools.

I'm reposting an op-ed piece that discusses the recent study about race and test scores where it did indeed show a gap for black students. However, the investigators for the study acknowledge that they did not take into account any other measures for admission (grades, essays, ECs, character). The author is Asian and an alum of Yale.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/white-students-unfair-advantage-in-admissions.html

"I’ve often heard Asian-Americans express resentment toward blacks and Latinos for benefiting from affirmative action. As a Yale senior, I remember feeling disillusioned myself when an upper-middle-class black classmate with significantly less academic achievement than I was admitted to a top medical school that had rejected me.

But if Asians are being held back, it’s not so much because of affirmative action but because of preference for whites. The 450-point advantage that the Princeton study demonstrated blacks have over Asians draws the most attention. But the number that is most revealing is the 140-point advantage for whites over Asians."[/quote]

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