2024 college sat data

my substack app just alerted me to a new post showing that 2024 sat data has been released.

https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/2024-sat-data-drop

i believe you have to have a substack account to read the complete article, but you can sign up for free if you don't have one. this is a paywalled post, but you should be able to get a one-time code to read the entire thing for free if you want. if you don't want to do all that, a lot of the data is available before the paywall cutoff.

among the many charts & stats in the post, you'll find that the top 10% of SAT scores are roughly:

39% asian
46% white
9% hispanic (i think)
4% multi-racial (guessing)
& blacks are a rounding error.

(the blocks for hispanic, multiracial & blacks were too small to have numbers assigned in the graph in the article, so i'm taking a rough guess at the hispanic/multiracial/black numbers).

in the bottom 10%:

25.7% are black
44.5% hispanic
22% white
& american indians & asians make up the balance at the bottom

things truly have changed in the 35 years since i was in school.

back then the groups getting the top grades went something like this:

orientals
whites
hispanics
blacks

now the ranking is

asians
whites
latinx
Blacks (capitalized for respect of course)

kudos to the education establishment for really turning things around.

the reports with data can be found here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240924224559/https://reports.collegeboard.org/sat-suite-program-results

here are the avg sat scores by race for the record

asian 1228
white 1083
hispanic 939
black 907

for the students who scored in the 1400-1600 range:

27% of asians who took the test scored 1400 or more
7% of whites scored that high
2% of hispanics were in that range
& 1% of blacks.

in the lowest category - below 800:

31% of blacks taking the test were in that range
25% of hispanics
8% of whites
and 3% of all asians taking the test were in that 800 or below range.