re: #17 Belafon

In Texas, we now require public colleges and universities to accept top 10%. Which is good for minorities in places, like Mesquite, where the cmschools are overwhelming minority. But, since the school system here goes out of its way to punish minorities by not giving them adequate funding, if you were in a school system that wasn’t that well funded, whites tend to have the big advantage with money to get things like regular tutoring and SAT prep tutoring.

Because of COVID, Caltech stopped using SAT tests for admissions. They used other measures to track a student’s success. The interim results were so positive that the moratorium was extended to 2025. There is a lot of data to use today. And 66% of the undergraduates are either Asian or Hispanic. So DEI is not hurt.