score forward or not. and that s because the s.a.t. can open doors to college and university and important scholarships that help students pay for them. i ll just give you a quick data point. in the high school class of 2020, there were 1.7 million students here in the u.s. who took the s.a.t., and that had an s.a.t. score that either confirmed their gpa, or even exceeded their high school gpa, making it a real point of strength. and among those 1.7 million were 600,000 that were first gen collegegoers and their family and 700,000 black and latino students. but if we have the option, we can submit our s.a.t. scores or not, aren t they just going to be a feather in the cap for kids who do really well, and if you didn t do well, just scrap it? what we re seeing in the data so far students really are taking the s.a.t., millions still are, and they re looking at their scores and deciding
just yeah. obviously tradition carries a lot of weight. [ laughter ] it does. so people have talked about it but not until this year did it really blow up? well, yeah, basically. it s been talked about. it s been discussed. it s really progressed past even the point of an open secret. it s just something that people know about. this year specifically the crimson white broke a story about two african-american girls fantastic candidates for the sorority system. one woman had a 4.3 high school gpa, her family was connected in local politics and i think state politics as well. she volunteered, and she was beautiful and all these other things and was rejected from every white sorority on campus. was that the root piece? that was what started discussion. was the person who wrote that piece, did they feel like they were being physically or physically uncomfortable for having exposed this?
i know it s got a long tradition and a rich history. just yeah. obviously tradition carries a lot of weight. [ laughter ] it does. so people have talked about it but not until this year did it really blow up? . well, yeah, basically. it s been talked about. it s been discussed. it s really progressed past even the point of an open secret. it s just something that people know about. this year specifically the crimson white broke a story about two african-american girls fantastic candidates for the sorority system. one woman had a 4.3 high school gpa, her family was connected in local politics and i think state politics as well. she volunteered, and she was beautiful and all these other things and was rejected from every white sorority on campus. was that the root piece? that was what started discussion. was the person who wrote that piece, did they feel like they were being physically or