Average sat score 20205/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Many colleges use SAT scores for admissions and financial aid decisions. As we show, there are similar patterns for English, but the gaps are not as stark. Over half (59%) of white and four-fifths of Asian test takers met the college readiness math benchmark, compared to less than a quarter of Black students and under a third of Hispanic or Latino students. The proportion of students reaching college-readiness benchmarks also differs by race. (The College Board predicts that the average SAT test taker will earn less than a C in their first-year math course.) The average scores for Black (454) and Latino or Hispanic students (478) are significantly lower than those of white (547) and Asian students (632). The class of 2020 averaged a score of 523 of 800 on the math section of the SAT, slightly below the College Board’s college-readiness benchmark score of 530. (This analysis builds on our earlier work on this issue from 2017, “ Race gaps in SAT scores highlight inequality and hinder upward mobility.”) We investigate SAT scores by race using the College Board’s publicly available data for over 2.1 million 2020 high school graduates, with a particular focus on the math section. In 1926, the SAT was created to give talented students, regardless of income, the chance to compete for college admission and scholarships. Nearly 100 years later, it often excludes the lower-income students it was created to help. Although the original exam was primarily aimed at economic diversity, part of its stated modern mission is to help increase racial diversity, too.īut Black and Hispanic or Latino students routinely score lower on the math section of the SAT - a likely result of generations of exclusionary housing, education, and economic policy - which too often means that, rather than reducing existing race gaps, using the test in college admissions reinforces them. ![]()
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