Blacks with lower SAT scores may still get admitted to UF
Found this article today and thought it was interesting. Years ago Gov. Bush created the One Florida Initiative, which forbid considering race in University acceptance and state employment. Now according to this article different ethnic groups are held to different standards when being considered for admission...or at least thats how it appears on first reading. The justification used for this practice is that the SAT, among other standardized test, favor middle and upper class white test takers.
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UF is right to view the SAT with skepticism, said Jay Rosner, executive director of the Princeton Review Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides test preparation to underprivileged students. Rosner analyzed more than 200,000 SAT questions and concluded that they were all "white-preference questions" that placed black students at a disadvantage.
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I guess one of my questions is how do the test "white-preference questions"? Is it the hypothetical situations used? Or the names of the hypothetical people used in the questions (Which I always remember being extremely culturally diverse names that many of which I had never even heard)? And then there is the mathematics, if it is the hypothetical situations used among the reading and writing, wouldn’t that have zilch to do with the mathematics sections?
And my second question is do you think it's right for the University of Florida to continue this practice of seemingly holding a particular ethnic group to a different standard that others?