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[quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the controversy here.  Numerous studies have shown that African Americans, even controlling for economic status, score lower on standardized tests such as the SATs than do whites or even other minorities.  The reasons are not clear, but it is a fact.  So if you have a school that is populated mostly by African Americans, the SAT scores are going to be lower than a school with more diversity.  If you accept the proposition that the SAT itself is biased, then it is easy to see how a school of mostly African American students, even ones who attend a school requiring an entrance exam, would have lower than average SAT scores.  And if I can just add to anecdotal evidence of some of the pp's - I am an upper middle class African American woman, I had very average SAT and LSAT scores (even after taking a test prep class), but I went on to graduate in the top 10% of my college and law school classes.  For whatever reason, those tests were horrible predictors of my academic success.[/quote]

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