<p>@bearcats, comparing the Asian American experience with the African-American one is mistaken. They did not have a systematic devaluatiom of their human rights for 400 years, and institutions specifically tailored to continue that institutional challenge afterward. Comparing the two doesn’t work; segregation has been and still is a tool used against minorites in America, specfically African-Americans and Hispanics.</p>
<p>Secondly, claiming its not recognized as a cultural problem is false. Civil Rights groups actively engage the communities they defend and attempt to improve education, and thankfully some students do excel. But taking a West Bloomfield student and claiming that their higher scores, compared to a Detroit student from a failing school shows more merit, is incorrect. Their economic and social inequality is not created or sustained by the student, and they cant be blamed for it as a whole.</p>
<p>Your comparison of athletic ability with success in University and what you will bring is unfounded. Test scores are not a neutral, fair standard of academic merit, and so cant be compared with academic ability. If colleges want to play a hard and fast stats game, is it too much to ask that the evaluation is fair and realistic, and actually takes into consideration age old social constructs that define just about every institution in America?</p>