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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1573-7861.2012.01326.x

“Black non-Hispanic students are more likely to participate in test prep, and there are also significant interaction effects of race and grade level on prep, with black 11th graders having the highest predicted probability of prep. “

https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/89/2/435/2235270?redirectedFrom=fulltext ; this one is sadly behind a paywall now.

https://www.academia.edu/3137918/Alon_Sigal_2010_Racial_Differences_in_Test_Preparation_Strategies_Social_Forces_89_2_463_474?uc-g-sw=25273978

“ blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites from comparable backgrounds to utilize test preparation. The black-white gap is especially pronounced in the use of high school courses, private courses and private tutors.”

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280232788_Race_Poverty_and_SAT_Scores_Modeling_the_Influences_of_Family_Income_on_Black_and_White_High_School_Students'_SAT_Performance

"Overall, results indicate that family income and, in particular, extremely low levels of family income (what we refer to as poverty) has a meaning-ful contribution to the total SAT reasoning test scores for both Black andWhite test-takers, and helps to explain the SAT performance differences between the two social groups of students."

"Indeed, the models described in  this study indicate a  large meaningful effect  of  poverty,  especially extreme  poverty, on  SAT  performance  for both Black and White test-takers. In fact, the large and differential effect of extreme poverty suggests that even if Black test-takers living in extreme poverty were  to boost  their high school  academic  achievement by  one point (clearly a  feat on  a 4.0  scale!)  they would,  nevertheless, perform25.2 points below their White middle-income counterparts who achieved one point  lower in  high  school achievement.  Thus, the  focus on  high school achievement for students in poverty may not be sufficient for pro-viding them with an equal opportunity to higher education based on the measured proxy of total SAT scores."[/quote]

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