Look at black athletes.
The majority of their SAT scores, grades, and academic achievements are not even CLOSE to university grade.
Back in the 1980s, when Proposition 48 was enacted, the media and black leaders were whining because 87% of those ruled ineligible because of SAT scores and grades were black.
Blacks Hit Hard by Proposition 48, Survey Shows (New York Times - 1988)
Back then, there was at least an attempt hold people to academic standards.
Today, it's all but a joke.
Now that you’ve mentioned Proposition 48, what I recall back then now seems quite ironic.
In the late 80’s, there were many after school specials, sitcoms and made for TV movies, whereas the story focused on a high school athlete being approached by college coaches.
He (all were as I remember) was a star, a good kid, a hero, loved, etc and would navigate personal life with the added lure of “making it big” dangled before him by predatory college recruiters.
Then, the discovery, our protagonist is illiterate and for some reason it’s everyone else’s fault but especially, those white guys from those colleges.
The whole system is rigged.
Not only can you have “accommodations” for taking the SATs, or are the SATs not required, or they are simply dropped as a criterion for certain groups, but once you get to college, it isn’t just athletes now who have “tutors” who can help them with their laughably easy coursework.
There is an “academic excellence” center that any student can go to to get “help” with any assignment in any class.
And requirements such as minimum grades for certain classes for majors, or actually attending certain classes, as simply bypassed by the departmental admins overruling any recalcitrant profs on appeal for the classes at stake. Such supposed standards are apparently only there for the ridiculously irrelevant accreditation bodies. Students are given a step by step guide for making such appeals in the syllabus they receive for every course.