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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Standardized tests are not fair and penalize those from disadvantaged backgrounds and we all know it.[/quote]

Then we need to look again at simply adjusting the scores for socioeconomic status. The huge problem with the current disdain for test scores is that holistic admissions seems to hurt Black kids with straight A’s and SAT scores over 1500. They usually get in some place pretty good, but they don’t have great success with the super selective schools.

I think that’s because activities are much easier for rich kids to game than grades and SAT are, and because colleges use holistic admissions more to pick out full-pay kids than to help Black kids. [/quote] there are almost Zero Black kids with 1500 SAT scores. (Less than 259 in 2006...last time they released this data) A black kid with Straight A AND 1500 can go anywhere they apply. An Asian or white kid...”What’s your hook?  We get 15000 kids with these scores every year. Not good enough.”[/quote]

Updated data:

[quote]The College Board’s publicly available data provides data on racial composition at 50-point score intervals. We estimate that in the entire country last year [b]at most 2,200 black and 4,900 Latino test-takers scored above a 700[/b]. In comparison, roughly 48,000 whites and 52,800 Asians scored that high. The same absolute disparity persists among the highest scorers: 16,000 whites and 29,570 Asians [b]scored above a 750, compared to only at most 1,000 blacks [/b]and 2,400 Latinos. (These estimates—which rely on conservative assumptions that maximize the number of high-scoring black students, are consistent with an older estimate from a 2005 paper in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, which found that only 244 black students scored above a 750 on the math section of the SAT.)[/quote]

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Ibram Kendi would say that the math test is racist.  Math is racism.  [/ ducks][/quote]

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