Jim

Thank you for your response. I believe I did say my position on SAT scores might be on the tenuous side.

This article is heading to "above my usual average" and is about half way through its Medium run. You are the first to challenge my assertions. Other readers seem to have accepted my "facts".

The other Medium essays I had read on this topic were parrots teaching each other how to talk. If your position is more correct, then we have a big cultural misunderstanding on this social issue.

My 5% figure came from the article of Charles Bastille, who I believe got that information from certain sources, which he has cited. So his figures are in conflict with the sources you have quoted.

You gave three sources. The report from the Brookings Institute was compiling several parameters at the same with all sorts of complex tables. I would need an hour or two to digest this information to comment wisely. For the other two sources, the race vs. admissions relation was much more easy to attain. They say the ethnic admissions match the general population reasonably well. If so, then many of my assertions in this article are in error.

Charles did mention that SAT and admissions by race were not applied uniformly across the USA, so other criteria are being used. But again, there is a cultural understanding of SAT being of uniform application. I definitely had this expectation until I read Charles' article.

So when the practice is not in line of expectation, what is the value of SAT? Especially given the immense resources put into SAT tests? That could be another interesting discussion.

Whether the Black admission is 5% or 12%, the question remains: Should Black admissions be given a easier ride into getting into college?

For me, that would depend on the dropout rate based an SAT scores. I don't have that information, which I have made clear in my original article.

If the admission are 12% Black but the graduates are 5% Black, then we have a big problem.