… will make it even harder now for Harvard to discriminate against Asians.
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that “SAT Scores Are Up, Especially for Asians.” It added that “The growing gap between scores of Asian Americans and others was also evident in this year’s ACT scores, on which all groups showed declines except for Asian Americans.”
Here is Inside Higher Ed’s table showing the new scores by race and ethnicity:
Average SAT Scores by Racial and Ethnic Group, 2018
| Math | Evidence-Based Reading and Writing |
Total | 1-Year Change | |
| American Indian | 480 | 469 | 949 | -14 |
| Asian | 635 | 588 | 1223 | +42 |
| Black | 463 | 483 | 946 | +5 |
| Latino | 489 | 501 | 990 | no change |
| Native Hawaiian | 489 | 498 | 986 | no change |
| White | 557 | 566 | 1123 | +5 |
