The rigging is found not only in the content of the tests but in the systematic social inequalities in society that ensure that young people of different social classes and races will be unequally prepared for the tests. I teach at a historically black university. My mostly black middle class students consistently perform and achieve as well as white middle class students with standaradized test scores 200 points higher. In fact, this demonstrates that liberal university presidents are racists, who, of course, do not wish to publicly acknowledge their racism. Goertzel also notes that elite universities are not willing to give up testing altogether, since they need it to discriminate among white applicants, but, of course, he does not understand the significance of this fact either.
Elite universities are devoted to maintaining and legitimizing class domination in society.
They are controlled by and funded by the ruling class. They cannot do away with racist admissions practices without doing away with class-rigged admission practices, because the racism is embedded in and inseparable from the system of class exclusion. The University of Texas in the recent Hopwood case illustrates his point. Hopwood was a working class woman who was not admitted to the U. of Texas Law School, because she did her undergraduate work at a state university. White students with lower grades who attended Ivy League and other expensive private schools were admitted ahead of her.