<p>While not at liberty to disclose the source of the '09 data, there is published information and commentary that is generally corroborative of my post above.
For example:</p>
<p>“Consider a table (page 62) from the Thernstroms’ America in Black and White, based on an article in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. These data, for freshmen enrolling in 1992, paint a different picture than that offered in The Shape of the River. Among these universities, the difference between the average white SAT score and the average black SAT score is smallest at Harvard, which engages only in relatively modest affirmative action and is able to take the best of the applicant pool because of its reputation. But as one moves down through the Ivies, the gap increases.”
(<a href=“Unexplored Tributaries)%5B/url%5D”>www.reason.com/9902/bk.re.unexplored.shtml)</a>.</p>
<p>And consider this (note it predates the SAT score re-centering which boosted scores, on average, by nearly 100 points):</p>
<p>"At Harvard, for example, the midpoint SAT score for blacks in the freshman class in 1992 (I have not found more recent numbers) was 1305, a score that would get these students into any university in the world, a score so close to the white midpoint score that it was described by an affirmative action critic as not “statistically meaningful.” (<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/affirm/stories/aaop011298.htm)%5B/url%5D”>www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/affirm/stories/aaop011298.htm)</a>.</p>