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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They have inflated grades and curated applications from expensive college counselors.[/quote]
But inflated standardized test scores from expensive tutors are different...RIGHT?[/quote]

Very few kids do that. The group least likely to use test prep is surprisingly white kids.  Asians prep the most, followed by black kids, then Hispanics.[/quote]

I'd love to see stats to back this assertion up.

Asians, I get since test prep is ingrained in the culture and is a lucrative industry in home countries. Whites have more access to tools, especially via paid means to test prep.

Standardized testing in the U.S. was designed to exclude blacks from certain institutions, educational or otherwise.

Some ( namely UMC whites who use paid test prep) tout Khan Academy via pull-yourself-from-bootstraps speak, but the digital divide is real in America: many blacks, Hispanics, and poor whites ( think Appalachia) don't have high speed internet access at home.
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