Roger is absolutely right. I just wanted to add that there’s a perfectly good argument against the SAT, and it has nothing to do with race.

In fact, in terms of determining merit, the SAT is generous to minorities. Were the SAT unfair, its scores would underpredict minority college GPAs — in other words, the racist test would say they’d only get a 3.0, but actually they’d get a 3.5. But actually, the opposite happens: There is “a tendency for the SAT to overpredict, not underpredict, the college performance of African Americans. On average, it indicates they will do better than they actually do.”

The case against the SAT, as made by Charles Murray, is that relative to other measures (including the SAT II), it’s just not that good for figuring out how students will do in college — regardless of what race the students are.