<p>To be quite honest I was a little shocked by the abysmal performance of black youth as a whole. Our school publishes a yearly school “report card” and apparently 18% of the black population in the district takes at least 1 AP class, and the bar for national achievement hovers around a score of 190 which is terrible when compared to the national merit semifinalist cut of about 216 in Texas. And national achievement is supposed to be like top 1% of black test takers in america.</p>
<p>It is really sad that black youth as an aggregate are underachievers. The above is the real reason that blacks get some “slack” in admission, and in all honesty I would rather have the same standards for black students as the Asian and whites. Sure that may result in 10 black students out of about 1,700 students in the entire class of Harvard, but at least it would be ten that would be qualified (in the statistical sense) to be there.</p>