Sunday, November 17, 2019

SAT Percentiles By Race

https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/sat-percentile-ranks-gender-race-ethnicity.pdf

Race normed scores
97 percentile in math
800 / 99+ Asian
700 / 92 Hispanic
750 / 96 White  (MIT whites are in top 99 percentile)
650 / 84 Black   (MIT blacks are in top 85-90 percentile)


https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/27/scores-new-sat-show-large-gaps-race-and-ethnicity

2017 Mean SAT Scores, and Percentage Meeting Benchmarks, by Race and Ethnicity
GroupReading and WritingMathematicsMet Both Benchmarks
American Indian/Alaska Native486477/3327%
Asian569612/7570%
Black479462/2620%
Latino500487/4131%
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander498488/4132%
White565553/6159%
Black average is only at the 26th percentile vs 61 for white and even higher 75 for Asian

https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-highlight-inequality-and-hinder-upward-mobility/

Race gaps on the SATs are especially pronounced at the tails of the distribution. In a perfectly equal distribution, the racial breakdown of scores at every point in the distribution would mirror the composition of test-takers as whole i.e. 51 percent white, 21 percent Latino, 14 percent black, and 14 percent Asian. But in fact, among top scorers—those scoring between a 750 and 800—60 percent are Asian and 33 percent are white, compared to 5 percent Latino and 2 percent black. Meanwhile, among those scoring between 300 and 350, 37 percent are Latino, 35 percent are black, 21 percent are white, and 6 percent are Asian:

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750-800 is 60% Asian nearly double number of whites at 33% even though population ratio is 6 to 51, so that is 34 times the natural ratio

Don't get 10% black until 500-550, 15% black until 450-500

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/sat-percentile-ranks-mathematics-2015.pdf
SAT® Percentile Ranks for Males, Females, and Total Group 2015 College-Bound Seniors — Mathematics This table allows you to compare a student’s mathematics score with the performance of other test-takers in the total group of 2015 college-bound seniors, as well as with all males and all females in the cohort. Percentile ranks show the percentage of each group who scored lower on the section.
 Total Male Female Score
Number Percentile Number Percentile Number Percentile
800 16,668 99 11,098 99 5,570 99
790   4,381 99   2,563 98 1,818 99
etc

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