It's because these people only see the world through the one-dimensional lens of skin color.
Further, it's an attractive way to view the world when you're a complete idiot with nothing of substance to offer society. It leads these people to infecting society with parasitic and fallacious ideas that you see manifested in the extremes of both political parties.
There should be some SAT score floor. But beyond that other factors should take over. If the floor is at n and two applicants appear - one with a score of 1.1n and the other 1.2n, I don’t think that’s enough information to decide who should get the spot.
Name a better way.
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It's a good way of figuring out who is intellectually capable. SAT scores have a very good prediction rate of success in college.
I’m not saying SAT scores are useless, just that they should only be used as a filter and not for ranking.
Affirmative action was misguided because it assumed that because one student was Korean and the other Mexican, the Mexican kid must be disadvantaged. Besides the fact that there's an inherently racist worldview baked into that, Newsflash! There are tons of poor Korean kids and rich Mexicans!