I think that people often misinterpret the way that colleges look at SAT scores. Any college with a holistic admission practices looks at the scores 'in context" – “context” means, among other things, the type and quality of the high school the student is coming from. The ad coms will generally also have a school profile that will tell them the score range of students at that school. So a kid who has a score of 1400 coming from an urban public high school may very well be viewed as if he had a higher score than a kid with a 1550 coming from top private academic prep.
When you sort all those scores out along racial and ethnic lines, it might very well turn out that the average score for admitted whites and Asians is higher than the average score for admitted URM’s, but that is an artifact of a multi-faceted admission process. Yes, the students racial/ethnic background is also a diversity factor – but it is one factor among many – in which test scores are considered, but are very rarely the dominant factor.
The problem is that CC users are not a representative sample – this board is full of parents and students who think that anything below 1500 is a terrible score. And the colleges are simply looking at much more than that .