@mom2collegekids: “As for the lower ACT scores in the bottom quartile. Bama consistently enrolls about 12% of black students. Unfortunately, the average score in the USA of a black student is an ACT 17. That likely impacts the reporting numbers.”
I hope you are not blaming Alabama’s “low” ACT scores on minority students.
You pointed out one very general metric from the population at large, but are you saying that AA students admitted and enrolled in Alabama are somehow less qualified from an academic standpoint than a White students? I would also note that only 10% of U of Alabama students are African-American, which is significantly less than that of the state at large.