With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects. β¨ Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.
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