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 Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 12:53 pm Post subject: Truly Shocking DAFN Test Scorz... |
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http://www.jbhe.com/latest/090403_racial_gap_on_act.html
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Slight Improvement in Black Scores on the ACT
but Persistant and Large Racial Gap Remains:
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The nation>s highest-ranked colleges and universities seek students
who score 28 or above on their ACT test. Nationwide in 2003 only
1,297 black students scored 28 or above on the ACT test. They made
up 1 percent of all black ACT test takers. In contrast, 93,068 white
students scored 28 or above on the ACT test this year. They made up
11.6 percent of all white ACT test takers. Thus, whites were more
than 11 times as likely as blacks to score at a level equal to the
mean score of students admitted to the nation>s most prestigious
colleges and universities.
If we examine ACT scores at the highest scoring levels, we find
an even larger disparity. Of the more than 129,000 blacks who took
the ACT test this year, not one scored a perfect score of 36. On the
other hand, there were 141 white students who received the highest
score of 36. Only one black student achieved a score of 35 on the ACT.
There were more than 1,100 white students who scored 35 or above on
the ACT.
But here is the most discouraging statistic in this year>s ACT report:
In 2003 more than 87 percent of all white test takers scored at or
above the median score for blacks.
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