Report states PSAT biases some students
By Jordan Dresnick | March 25, 2005An article forthcoming in the National Crosstalk reports that a University of California faculty committee has recently censured the National Merit Scholarship's dependence on PSAT scores. The report finds that the program discriminates against minority applicants and students from low-income families who, on average, score considerably worse on standardized tests than do their white, Asian-American and wealthier peers. "The scores on the SAT have a lot to do with the person's economic status, and that is going to have an enormous impact on poor students, black or white," African-American Affairs Dean M.
