Power Line reprints a quote from the New York Times (behind their paywall), the topic is college admissions and SAT scores.
An article on Wednesday about how the Trump administration will gain access to the standardized test scores and grade point averages of all applicants to Columbia and Brown University misstated the findings of an SAT report from the College Board.The report found that 1 percent of the African American high school graduates who took the SAT in 2024 scored between 1400 and 1600, the highest possible scores, and 27 percent of the Asian graduates scored at that level.
It is not the case that, of all the high school graduates who scored between 1400 and 1600 in 2024, 1 percent were African American and 27 percent were Asian.
We may all be "created equal" in the eyes of the law, but we are not otherwise equal as the SAT demonstrates. Its score is highly correlated with the ability to accomplish college level scholarship.
