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Wow, I looked up the data to refute this, but it was worse than I presumed:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-h...

My initial thought was we could just have a floor. We don't need to ensure a perfect score amongst the pool that gets randomly selected, so if there there is minimum that is still "high," and that isn't biased toward outliers from any race, then it would work.

But it looks like the floor we'd need to have a reasonable representation would be something like a 500/800 math score. That is much too low, at least for elite schools. Choosing something like a 700 cut-off ends up being very racially selective.




Math is much more disparate than Verbal (ERW). You can see the data at https://reports.collegeboard.org/pdf/2020-total-group-sat-su...




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