For reference, to apply to Georgia Tech, I guestimate that you want an SAT score of at least 590-690 for reading and writing and a math score of 650-740. For Clemson, you want a reading score of 550-650 and math score of 600-700. For University of Georgia, you want all of your scores at least between 560 and 660. For Georgia State, you want your scores between 500 and 600. For Gordon College in Barnesville, math and reading scores can be between 390 and 490.

If my estimates are anywhere near the ballpark, I stand corrected and am sad. My anecdotal experience does not match these data. The black/white gap in Decatur seems huge and college-changing, although I’m glad it’s decreasing. I blame no one, not IQs, not parents, not DHS, but seek to understand. SAT scores do not = character, grit, persistence, honesty, compassion, as noted in the NY Times article in the other thread. Strangely, the table of school-specific SAT scores has at least temporarily disappeared off the Georgia DOE website–were others also critical of its formatting? But my memory is that Alpharetta High School’s mean math score was 570 so DHS white students score similarly to Alpharetta H.S. students as a whole. My guess is that white Alpharetta H.S. students have a mean math score of over 600.