<p>Again, you are not an admissions officer. Race per se is not always an entranceway to ivy league schools. But occasionally it does set apart an applicant who does have good scores and/or has overcome significant obstacles and has achieved high scores (maybe not comparable to the average applicant), but astonishing nevertheless for the resources which the student lacked. Admissions officers admit them not just for diversity, but because they know (or hope) that with the proper resources, these often-disadvantaged applicants (which <em>tend</em> to be URM’s) would quickly reach the levels of the advantaged, average applicant, i.e. If Student B, who happens to be African-American, achieved a 2000 SAT despite going to the worst school system in the U.S., he obviously has the capacity to have done much better had he had the proper resources. Ugh, I’m ranting. 
Hopefully, there’s lucidity in there. Either way, aglages, you don’t know how admissions utilizes race and you should realize that scores are not the sole deciding factor (and RACE isn’t either!). It is fairly clear that there is some personal chagrin in this for you; may I inquire about this? A child of yours rejected from Harvard? Or is this just your usual self?</p>