The SAT was developed by racists, and it's bias is a large part of the problem.
From grade school to college, students of color have suffered from the effects of biased testing.
www.nea.org
"We still think there’s something wrong with the kids rather than recognizing there is something wrong with the tests," Ibram X. Kendi of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at Boston University and author of How to be an Antiracist said in October 2020. "Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black and Brown minds and legally exclude their bodies from prestigious schools."
In his essay “The Racist Origins of the SAT,” Gil Troy calls Brigham a “Pilgrim-pedigreed, eugenics-blinded bigot.” Eugenics is often defined as the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. It was developed by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race. Only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis in World War II was the theory dismissed.
“All-American decency and idealism coexisted uncomfortably with these scientists’ equally American racism and closemindedness,” Troy writes.
I should also state that I find it kind of wrong that we are forcing 17-year-olds to take a test, and how they do on that test will forever affect their opportunities in life. It's actually, kind of bullshit.