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A while ago, I posted the following to the "Twitter" thread (about tech companies not being able to find enough qualified blacks):

From The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, regarding 2005 SAT scores:

In 2005, 153,132 African Americans took the SAT test. They made up 10.4 percent of all SAT test takers. But only 1,132 African-American college-bound students scored 700 or above on the math SAT and only 1,205 scored at least 700 on the verbal SAT. Nationally, more than 100,000 students of all races scored 700 or above on the math SAT and 78,025 students scored 700 or above on the verbal SAT. Thus, in this top-scoring category of all SAT test takers, blacks made up only 1.1 percent of the students scoring 700 or higher on the math test and only 1.5 percent of the students scoring 700 or higher on the verbal SAT.
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If we raise the top-scoring threshold to students scoring 750 or above on both the math and verbal SAT — a level equal to the mean score of students entering the nation's most selective colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and CalTech — we find that in the entire country 244 blacks scored 750 or above on the math SAT and 363 black students scored 750 or above on the verbal portion of the test. Nationwide, 33,841 students scored at least 750 on the math test and 30,479 scored at least 750 on the verbal SAT. Therefore, black students made up 0.7 percent of the test takers who scored 750 or above on the math test and 1.2 percent of all test takers who scored 750 or above on the verbal section.

For companies looking for super-smart people, there just aren't enough qualified blacks to satisfy Jesse Jackson or the EEOC

A 700 or higher on the math section is good enough for a scholarship and/or admission to a very selective college, but 500 is the average score. The average engineering major, for example, scores just a little bit above average (in the 500’s) on the SAT math portion. If you don’t believe me, check here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-average-sat-score-for-every-college-major-2014-10

IOW, the SAT may be a good measuring tool indicating potential success in college, but it’s not the end-all. Employers don’t care whether you’ve scored high on the SAT. The degree is what matters.