Apart from the fact that few blacks score that high, students at the most highly selective schools have median S.A.T. scores of 1,300 or higher.

Despite significant gains, blacks are still scoring about 200 points below whites on College Boards.

She focused on the news media's coverage of the racial achievement gap - the difference between how whites and blacks score on standardized tests.

Generally, blacks scored at 81 percent of the levels for whites, Puerto Ricans at 79 percent.

From this narrow perspective he reached the unremarkable conclusion that blacks in his "sample" scored lower than whites who were admitted.

When he gave black students a test on which, he warned them, blacks usually scored worse than whites, the students did poorly.

In 1990, blacks scored an average of 267, and whites scored an average of 297 points.

On NAEP math tests in 1973, blacks scored an average of 270, and whites scored 310.

After long debate over why blacks score lower, and what it means, a fresh theory is putting the discussion into perspective.

During a discussion of standardized test scores, Lawrence cited statistics showing that blacks scored relatively low.