<p>For highly selective colleges, how does the SAT front compare among truly under-represented minorities (not counting Asians)?</p>
<p>I understand that, typically, URMs are compared with other URMs in the application process (correct me if I'm wrong).</p>
<p>So, are their SATs also compared among each other, or compared to the general SAT average the college likes to maintain? Do colleges go the extra mile to compare SATs of URMs to other SAT scores of URMs? Although I haven't read this in any admissions books, in fact I haven't seen any statistics ever on SATs of only URMs in an admitted freshman class, is there still a possibility?</p>
<p>The general consensus I've heard, to be elgible for admissions at highly selective universities, a given is that you're in the top 1-10% (possibly to 25%, given good circumstances) of your class, and have SAT section scores of above 700, at the least. These are what I've heard as the basics.</p>
<p>Since URMs tend to do worse on the SAT than others, are their lower scores (possibly in the low to mid 600 range) overlooked or compensated by the fact that they are a URM? Or are SATs evaluated by college average, and in the end, the fact that you're URM plays a role, not in each tidbit of the application? </p>
<p>Although I've never seen SAT figures in an admitted freshman class solely for URMs, I have heard that colleges, when calculating an SAT average, may remove certain URM's scores. Do they take this mindset, and accept a low score, knowing that they can "exaggerate" the average reported score if they need to?</p>
<p>Please answer honestly, I'm very curious as to how colleges up there in the ranks deal with lower scores from URMs, specifically.</p>