Re:What Harvard Owes Its Top Asian-American Applicants: Step...
by learc83 on Friday February 03, 2012 @02:46AM
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How many times does the average Asian student take the SAT versus the average white/black/Hispanic student?
I honestly have no idea, but until we know that, statistics like "Asian students need to score 200 more points than white students" are meaningless.
This is entirely hypothetical: An Asian student takes the SAT 4 times and makes a 1500, A black student takes it once and makes a 1300--If the black student is accepted, on paper it looks like racial discrimination.
Personal anecdote. I took the SAT once, in 10th grade, and scored 1360/1600. If I had taken it again my senior year I probably would have scored much higher, but I got accepted everywhere I applied, and I had the highest score in my class, so why bother. Most of the other high achievers in my class took the SAT at least 3 times.
I honestly have no idea, but until we know that, statistics like "Asian students need to score 200 more points than white students" are meaningless.
This is entirely hypothetical: An Asian student takes the SAT 4 times and makes a 1500, A black student takes it once and makes a 1300--If the black student is accepted, on paper it looks like racial discrimination.
Personal anecdote. I took the SAT once, in 10th grade, and scored 1360/1600. If I had taken it again my senior year I probably would have scored much higher, but I got accepted everywhere I applied, and I had the highest score in my class, so why bother. Most of the other high achievers in my class took the SAT at least 3 times.