<p>Cambridgeguy, I know URMs turned down by Harvard with scores that fit their range well. I also know some accepted with scores that are much lower than the lower 25% range. Though I have never seen the breakdown of accepted scores by URM status, my son’s highschool keeps record of every college their student have appllied to. If you go to its Harvard page, you can see the SAT, GPa numbers for each student who has appled there. It also identifies each applicant by sex, URM and any hook. There are codes for legacy, development, special relationship (celebrities’ kids), recruited athlete, strong performing arts resume, national recognition on things that top schools consider important (highly ranked in debate for instance, Siemans finalist, etc). Most of those accepted had a specialty code, and it there were as many non URMs with below average academic stats as there were URMs. I did not see many accepted, URM or not, without that code.</p>