<p>Are there published statistics which show that URM’s in general are in the bottom 25% at top schools? My guess would be that the very best universities have enough URM’s with fantastic stats - enough to turn away some every year. I would think that when you get into the lower stats with URM’s or non-URM’s, those are students who need to show that they have had to overcome some type of hardship (or they are development admits, or any of the other special cases listed already on this thread). </p>
<p>I don’t think the assumption can be made that URM’s have lower stats and got in because of their race or ethnicity.</p>