Dark Secrets of SAT

This is an article I ran too when researching SAT, very eye-opening for those who don't know:

Interview w/ John Yoo: Professor at Boalt Law School, University of California, Berkeley

"You had talked a little bit about the 75 percent Asian and white (student body). What do you think of maybe a progressively dominant Asian population on campus at Berkeley?"

"I know that some Asian community leaders in California are actually concerned that there are going to be too many Asians at Berkeley, because they think there's going to be a backlash against Asians in the state by other minority groups or by whites. If these community leaders out there really believe that they want to shortchange their children's education in order to achieve some kind of racial balance or harmony, they can easily live it out in their own lives. The thing that bothers me is that they're trying to impose it on other parents who want their own kids to have the best education possible. And I think that's really wrong. That's a lot of the reason that Asian parents took the risks and hardships to ensure that their kids could come to the United States and have a good education. They aren't available in Asia. I'm from Korea. The difficulties in getting a good university education there are very high. I know that's one of the reasons why my parents came to the United States. And I think it's terrible that there are people in our own community who want to restrict the ability of people to send their kids to the best schools because they're worried about some far-off hypothetical future where there's going to be racial hostility or violence, just because there are too many Asians at Berkeley.

And the thing is, we don't ask these kinds of questions in other areas of life. We don't worry that there are too many blacks playing basketball because otherwise there might be a backlash against blacks, because there aren't enough whites or Asians or Jews playing basketball. It's only in this sort of educational area that you see this argument being made. And I really find it disturbing.

If you want to have a different university which is open to everybody -- an open access college university system -- then you can say everybody has a chance and the representation should be about proportional, because the point of that university is to let everybody in. But that's not the way the UC system is designed. "

Full Interview:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sats/interviews/yoo.html