Extended Data Fig. 4: Excellence in the SAT math section by 8th grade rank.

This figure shows the proportion of students who score in the top decile of the SAT math section nationally, and the distribution of 8th grade achievement in math for each percentile in the top 10 percent. Shaded lines around the two lines correspond to the 95% confidence intervals and shaded areas reflect the density of students at each achievement level. Analysis uses our high school sample, as defined in Methods, which consists of 244,750 students in total: 58,370 classified as a racial minority and 186,380 as a non-minority.