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...Latino enrollment at U.C. dipped measurably in the wake of California's 1996 ban on the use of affirmative action in admissions. The SATs are a major reason: last year the mean score for blacks on the SAT was 198 points lower than that for whites. Recently, when Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania and Bates College in Maine stopped requiring the SAT, minority applications doubled...
...studies from schools that have dropped the SAT cast doubt on the test's predictive power. Last year more than 80% of freshmen at Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College (which went SAT-optional in 1997) submitted their sats; the average score was 1,183. Nonsubmitters (asked to disclose their scores after being admitted) averaged just 964. Yet the submitters' freshman marks were only a third of a letter grade higher than those of the nonsubmitters...
...test well. The SAT math scores announced last week were the highest in 30 years, but blacks continued to score far below whites on both sections of the test, trailing by a total of 198 points. (The College Board says this is because of differences in educational opportunity.) When Muhlenberg College and Maine's Bates College stopped requiring the SAT, minority applications doubled. Says William Hiss, dean of enrollment at Bates: "Schools that use the SAT are throwing away a third of their talent...
Three years ago, high school senior Joshua Brookstein of Philadelphia didn't worry much about the SAT. He was too busy serving as president of the city-wide student government. His 950 SAT score would have kept him out of most elite colleges. But he applied to Muhlenberg, didn't submit his score and is set to make the dean's list. Another Senator in the making...
...addition, a small but growing number of liberal-arts colleges have made test scores optional, in part because they want to draw minorities. Schools such as Connecticut College in New London; Muhlenberg in Allentown, Pa.; and Franklin & Marshall in Lancaster, Pa., have followed the lead of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, which made scores optional in 1989 and has studies saying that quality hasn't suffered as a result...