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In 2019-20, 77% of high school seniors took the SAT test as part of the process of applying for admission to colleges and universities. In 2020-21, fewer than 50% will do so and most colleges are not requiring SAT scores because many of the testing dates were canceled because of COVID.
Now the “woke” race activists are demanding that standardized testing be eliminated altogether as part of the college admissions process. Their reason? Because lower test scores by minority students (except Asians pay not attention) is a reflection of racism the results prove the racism, and nothing more be said or proven.
Yale Law Students Said a Top Journal Was Racist. Admissions Data Suggest Otherwise. Yale University / Getty Images
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Yale Law Journal on Friday released admissions data in the face of a week-long pressure campaign in which activists alleged that blacks are underrepresented on the masthead. The numbers demonstrate the opposite, showing that blacks and other minority groups are overrepresented on the prestigious journal relative both to the student body at large and the general population.
The conflagration began on Tuesday after a
Journal editor, Gavin Jackson, resigned, saying he felt used and tokenized in his position. Jackson s resignation elicited furious statements from a raft of affinity groups at the law school, which are demanding that the