Examine All Minorities in the SAT Comparison

John Katzman, president of the Princeton Review, claims that the Scholastic Aptitude Test is biased and that 50% of black women don’t reach the National Collegiate Athletic Assn.’s SAT cutoff while only 1% of white men don’t reach it.

I do not argue with these statistics, but I wonder why he did not include the percentages of other minority groups when he presented his data. I have a hunch that a high percentage of Asians and Asian women reach the SAT cutoff, and my question to Mr. Katzman is this: How can the test be more biased toward one minority group than another? Many of these Asian students are immigrants who have other “hurdles” to overcome, namely learning a foreign language and the intricacies of a foreign culture.

Call me old-fashioned, or “a relic of the time when every college student was a white, upper-middle-class man,” but isn’t it time that we stop watering down the admission requirements and start getting serious about preparing high school students for the rigors of a college education?

JOSEPH P. HUBBELL

Shell Beach