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Plus, standardized test scores have a significant income bias. Affluent kids get SAT prep and can take the SAT multiple times if they're unsatisfied in their sc
by tesseractive 15y ago
Plus, standardized test scores have a significant income bias. Affluent kids get SAT prep and can take the SAT multiple times if they're unsatisfied in their scores. And I don't have any data, but my guess is that there's a negative correlation between how many hours per week that you are employed while attending high school and your GPA.
These factors may be part of the consideration when accounting for lower quantitative admissions requirements for black and hispanic applicants, and those from lower income brackets in general.
- yummyfajitas 15y agoStudies which aren't funded by Kaplan tend to show a minimal effect due to test prep. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124278685697537839.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124278685697537839.html Also, bringing up income when defending racial preferences is disingenuous. If colleges wanted to discriminate by income, they would. Fun fact: income is not the cause of racial gaps in educational performance. It plays a role, but the gap exists even holding income constant. http://www.umich.edu/~rdytolrn/pathwaysconference/presentations/craig.pdf http://www.umich.edu/~rdytolrn/pathwaysconference/presentati... http://www.jstor.org/pss/2963200 http://www.jstor.org/pss/2963200