<p>matt, the split is HUGE. black people on average score 200 points lower than whites and asians. but there’s much more to the complaints against the SAT than “racial bias”.</p>
<p>also, AA at NYU really isn’t that big.</p>
<p>two black people applied from my class and both were rejected. one was horribly underqualified so it came as no suprise; the other had a 1270, ~3.5gpa, good ECs, legacy, and was the son of laurence fishburne (that’s right, morpheus).</p>
<p>nyu is only 4% black and 5% hispanic – compare this to berkeley’s 11% hispanic and 4% black population.</p>
<p>i completely reject the idea that higher SAT = better student body. better at taking the SAT maybe.</p>
<p>i probably would have done a lot worse on the new SAT than i did on the old one. does that mean i suddenly became a worse student?</p>