I agree.

And he’s the exception because he’s an immigrant kid and you can bet immigrant kids generally do better than native born kids because of parental expectations.

They do work harder to get where they are. To put the race angle in another light, would Kwasi Enin have gotten in all eight Ivy League schools had he been a native born black American?

We know the answer to that question – no and even racial preferences, er racist preferences are of no help here. So his story doesn’t tell us anything at all about how well black Americans would really do in an elite higher education environment.

NF: The “immigrants’ kids do better” trope is a myth that used to be true decades ago but is no longer. In fact, many immigrants’ kids do not do better today. And their parents do not expect more. Check out Los Angeles County and Dearbornistan. DS

NormanF on April 1, 2014 at 3:39 pm

“Blacks should be insulted by this”

It is insulting. Very, and this article that you’ve written today Debbie is Spot on.

These liberal quacks keep reinforcing the message, “oh help the darkies, they just can’t compete, help them, they are so helpless. Aw just look at them”

Makes me Puke!

Big D on April 1, 2014 at 3:39 pm

I know that we all believe in “equity” & equality for anyone who’s qualified for just about anything that they’re good and excellent at. But affirmative action isn’t anything but fairness and is anti-equality, as I read along the source both from DS’s POV and the empirical source that Debbie highlighted in the article, there might be a hidden agenda here of promoting Kwasi Enin to those 8 Ivy League institutions, based upon, I’m sorry to say, due to his skin color.

I happen to be a person of color (black to be precise), who’s a fan of “Debbie Schlussel” herself and I clearly understand were the woman is coming from with this, she (Debbie) isn’t saying that kid shouldn’t get scholarship offers at the Ivy League schools, she’s simply saying that they’re pushing this kid to those Ivy League colleges due to what he looks like, and didn’t take a investigative look at his SAT score, that’s what’s being illustrated here!

Sean R. on April 1, 2014 at 3:42 pm

I knew people who got even better scores, were Merit Finalists, were No. 1 in their class, and did not get into a single Ivy League School.

This person is smart, regardless of his color. In fact, he appears to be very smart. However, there is no reason to make a big news story about him when there are other teens just as smart or smarter than he is.

Jonathan E. Grant on April 1, 2014 at 3:57 pm

I had perfect achievement test scores, received Honors in the Westinghouse Science contest, won a Bausch & Lomb scientific achievement award, and no one wrote me up when I was in high school.

Jonathan E. Grant on April 1, 2014 at 3:58 pm

He scored No. 11? I’m sure there is absolutely no chance that his placement at no. 11 was due to affirmative action is there?

Could it possibly be that his even getting No. 11 was a result of preferential grading at his high school? Wouldn’t surprise me.

A score of 2250 under the new scoring that was initiated and developed in the last 20 years or so is nothing really that remarkable.

It also wouldn’t surprise me if his Writing score on the SAT was artificially propped up. If he writes at all in Black English, a grader could easily recognize it and make judgmental allowances in his favor. Can any of us say this never happens?

But even conservatives [sic] don’t criticize affirmative action anymore. Dr. Ben Carson, the latest conservative hero, endorses affirmative action. He says he’s against it, but if you look in detail at what he is saying, it represents a convoluted, disingenuous defense of affirmative action, and the mindless conservatives who are drooling over him are either too stupid or too unconcerned to care.

Little Al on April 1, 2014 at 3:59 pm

Typical leftist media story: black kid gets admitted to all the Ivy league schools. But wait. Both parents are doctors? He lives on Long Island? Say, this kid wasn’t raised in the hood by a single mother on welfare, but by two hetero parents that work for their money and live in a nice neighborhood. What a shocker!

That’s the good part. The bad part is that, yeah, he stilled relied on white guilt to get into all those schools. And what the media failed to tell us, is readily available in the book called the Bell Curve by Murray and Herrnstein.

FriscoKid on April 1, 2014 at 4:12 pm

The article makes it like he is some poor inner city kid. You can bet with both parents bring doctors, this kid lived an upper middle class life. Plus his parents can afford the outrageous tuition.
I bet a Middle class white or Jewish kid who played sports and graduated 1-10 in this kids school, had little to no chance of getting into one Ivy League school.

Glen Benjamin on April 1, 2014 at 4:35 pm

To add to my last point. His parents are doctors living on Long Island. Again they can probably pay for much of his Ivy League cost. I know people who got into Ivy League schools but did not go. A price upwards of 60,000 per year would saddle them with to much debt.
So many talented students do not have the financial well being to go to these schools. Yet they trump up this kid like he is from some inner city welfare family. You can bet he will still get grant money plus family help BEFORE he would even have to pay out of his own pocket.

Glen Benjamin on April 1, 2014 at 4:43 pm

I get your point, all of you, especially the ones with better scores and grades who didn’t get the golden Ivy rings. But I say: Cut the kid some slack. Be as proud of him as his parents must be. He studied and did the right things. Compared with others whose parents’ wealth or celebrity status eased the way, he’s a hero. Stop being jealous and leave him alone.

Elliot Eisenberg on April 1, 2014 at 5:08 pm

There’s always a ‘but’, isn’t there, Elliot.

You are conflating being proud of him with admission into all eight Ivies.

As it happens, I’m against preferential admission for athletes, legacies, children of celebrities, and the children of professors. But multiple wrongs don’t make a right.

And you are using the word ‘hero’ really loosely. Is every kid with halfway decent scores (and that is all these are — if you bothered to read my entry, the SAT has been so dumbed-down that 2250 isn’t that remarkable, especially when the writing part might have been padded) a hero? Of course not.

Little Al on April 1, 2014 at 5:54 pm

and he really seems like a good candidate, down the road, for Princeton Medical School.

Little Al on April 1, 2014 at 8:07 pm

the entire ivy league
prostrating themselves

for one of the most legendary athletes
maybe

like

jim thorpe
jim brown

in fact with the possible exception of
jim thorpe

jim brown should be regarded
the best of all time

prestigio on April 1, 2014 at 8:47 pm

His SAT was graded on an affirmative action curve, as well.

DS_ROCKS! on April 1, 2014 at 9:45 pm

Depending on the section scores, his SAT score still puts him somewhere in the 96-98 range.
You really think affirmative action is what gets a kid in with SAT scores in that score range?

As for his class rank, the only information we have is his ranking of 11th and that puts him in the top 2% of his class (your math).
His GPA wasn’t made public and neither were the top 10 GPAs at his school. You could be huffing and puffing over GPAs ranging from 4.4-4.8.
Do you think he has a 3.0 or lower GPA?
Do you think affirmative action is the reason a kid with a 4.something GPA gets in to an Ivy?

Straight from Harvard’s website (the Ivy with the lowest acceptance rate):
[M]ost admitted students rank in the top 10-15% of their graduating classes.

[T]he majority of students admitted represent a range of scores from roughly 600 to 800 on each section of the SAT as well as on the SAT Subject Tests. The 25th percentile for admitted students on the SAT is about 2100; the 75th percentile is about 2350.

His high school & SAT results sure seem to be inline with those figures.

Riddle of Steel on April 1, 2014 at 10:12 pm

I just want to point out some fundamentally incorrect things in this post. First off, you repeatedly stressed how Enin’s scores are only in the 98th percentile for whites. You have no evidence to back that, since the SAT does not release composite scores by race. They do release composite scores overall, though, where scores are compared on a national scale. There, he is ranking 99th percentile.

I truly believe that this entire rant is about you releasing your racist bigotry through Enin’s acceptances. Be happy for the kid instead of critiquing the motives behind the acceptances! Maybe him being an underrepresented minority could sneak a student into one Ivy League school, but it takes true talent to get into all eight. The title of your blog rant is “Black Kid Admitted to All 8 Ivy League Schools.” I think a more apt (and less racist) title for this would be “Genius kid admitted to all 8 Ivy League Schools.” When you pin all his success on him being black, and neglect to acknowledge all his achievements, (which include varsity athletics, playing viola, and singing acapella, as well as volunteering at a hospital) you are essentially perpetuating the racism that you disagreed with in the first place. Whatever it is that got him in, congratulate the kid instead of going on a racist rant about how this is racism against whites (if that’s even a thing).

J: Moron, if you bothered to click the link, the document–produced by the College Board, which creates, owns, and operates the entire SAT testing process–does indeed state composite SAT scores by race. RIF–Reading Is Fundamental. Try it sometime, especially before commenting. Premature articulation is generally a disaster, as in this very obvious case. But, hey, thanks for the incorrect correction. DS

Julia on April 1, 2014 at 10:46 pm

According to the college board’s stats, about 10,000 students scored better than 2250 (if, in fact, that’s what he got). So, a very good score, a very good student, but far from genius. Were he Asian, he might get into one of the lower Ivies. Might.

Adam on April 1, 2014 at 11:50 pm

The liberals have taken over and ruined the education system in this country. Affirmative action is a bunch of nonsense that helps “minorities” – but only if you are the RIGHT KIND of minority! Whites of any kind need not apply! Got to make sure whitey pays for college, while everyone else gets a free ride!

Going to school in LA County I witnessed how twisted everything is. At the age of 10 I was selected to go into the Highly Gifted Magnet school program that was for kids who tested with IQ’s above 145. Each class was comprised of about 100 students, taken from throughout Los Angeles County, to a chosen school in the Valley.

The school campus was 80-90% Hispanics who were part of the “regular” school, and within the Magnet program was about 70% white, 20% Asian, 5% Hispanic and no African Americans.

The Magnet program had it’s own classes, segregated from the regular school, except for electives. In my elective classes I witnessed how dumbed down everything was made for the “poor minorities.” Can’t have everyone failing a class, now can we? I question many schools giving high scores to minorities, based simply on their race. I have met and seen how supposed 3.5-4.0 GPA students in minority dominated schools (all Hispanic or black) are held to a much, much lower standard. Many of the students they are letting into university’s today with “high GPA’s” like Enin, are given their high scores by liberal Marxist and/or fellow Hispanics/blacks teachers.

And it doesn’t help that the schools and universities are filled with liberal/communist types that will crucify you if you are a white male and don’t subscribe to their views. Not everyone is, but you can’t help but run into them! They always are too happy to give the Mexican or African American or insert-minority-here, the upper hand and dumb down the learning experience to please them and not appear racist.

The colleges are all too happy to admit minorities with sub-standard scores because of the federal money they get for it. Not saying Enin is sub-standard, but bottom line he is given a pass and will be taking a more qualified student’s seat. Now that my friends is racism.

Who is to say Enin or other minorities should be given preferential status because of their race? Who is to tell me that an African American is more deserving of being “helped” than a Caucasian? My grandfather’s family perished in the Holocaust and came to the USA with nothing but a suitcase, was constantly discriminated against from practicing medicine, despite being on of the best doctors in Austria, and somehow, another person is given a leg up only because of THEIR race?

AMERICA IS DUMBING ITSELF DOWN TO OBSCURITY! I can not go on enough about the idiots they let into college because of their RACE, who didn’t know their right hand from their left.

Unfortunately a diploma doesn’t mean anything anymore. Company’s these days care more about hiring minorities for federal credits, than hiring brilliant minds that set the standard. Companys are too busy making sure they are Race-Compliant and pleasing scam artists like Al Sharpton. No wonder America is no longer leading in innovation, industry, or anything at all of any type of merit.

Keep it real on April 2, 2014 at 1:01 am

BTW, do we know what kind of ‘doctors’ his parents are? The article didn’t say MDs.

Are they MDs? Or some other kind of doctors? Who knows?

Little Al on April 2, 2014 at 8:49 am

Nowadays most anti-white anti-male discrimination is at the financial aid level. Universities are charging so much money that most young adults need to receive financial aid to attend college at all, even with working parents. The federal government through the department of education decides who gets pell grants and stafford loans. And big surprise, single mothers, women and minorities receive most of the loans and grants. With grades/SATs not being factored in at all. You can do well in school and have no money to go to college, or do poorly in school and get lots of money to go to college. The US government is deciding for the most part who can attend college and which ones.

Bomb on April 2, 2014 at 9:05 am

Eleven out of over 600 students, of both Black and White students, is an amazing class rank. He is also a musician and very involved with other extracurricular activities, as well. A 2250 SAT score IS a fantastic score. What many don’t understand, is that most universities, even the Ivies, look for more than an egg-head, perfect-SATscore, number-one-in-the-class applicants. Schools like people who can devote time to activities outside the confines of one’s desk and still maintain a very high grade-point average. It means the person is a doer, sociable, a team player, AND very smart. I don’t care what color this kid is, and the article about him comparing him to other Black people is disgusting. He can stand on his own against all the colors. My son, NOT Black nor Hispanic, but White, didn’t have a basic SAT score as high as 2250, although on the SAT II he received nearly perfect scores in every subject. He is a computer whiz, a chemistry and physics whiz, started writing computer programs at age 7, composes music, and has won first place in our state on three different instruments. He is jovial, fun-loving, and far from being the proverbial egg-head. If one were to judge him on his basic SAT score alone, 2110, and 1440 on the traditional math/English component, even though those scores are nothing to sneeze at, one could make very wrong assumptions about his aptitude, skills, and potential. However, just as in the case of the young man in the article, the universities, which take a holistic approach to assessing a student’s “worth” could appreciate my son’s potential, and he won a full, four-year, merit-based scholarship to a prestigious university. The scholarship program includes weekly leadership presentations from businessmen, meetings with State and Federal leaders, and a lifetime association with scholarship alumni. If whittled down to just a SAT score and class rank number and nothing more, it would be an injustice, as if my son are those numbers and nothing more. Let’s attack the liberals who compare everyone based on outward appearances, and not the young man who deservedly has received such positive reactions from so many schools.

Dina k. on April 2, 2014 at 9:52 am

Hey, does NYC have a mayor who got elected because of his kid’s afro!! Anyhow, affirmative action should be based strictly on income, not race. I’m sure this young man’s parents are making a living. Better to help a kid rise out of poverty. But race works better for the pols who continue to balkanize our once great nation. My biracial kid who is officially white right now, may become officially black when money is being passed around. lol.

Biker Rich on April 2, 2014 at 10:11 am

Ok lets take a pause a talk about the 100 or so black kids that rioted in Louisville and didnt go to an Ivy League University…. “We don’t see people who are successful. We see people who are broken, so we want to break people.”

Again…

A swarm of two dozen teenagers walked up to a man on the Big Four Bridge around 7 p.m. Saturday and asked him for a cigarette. Then, without provocation, they pummeled him.

Within minutes, 10 teenagers on the bridge shoved another man to the ground, beat and kicked him, as his wife and granddaughters watched and wept.

Where is National media slobbering over this?

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2014/03/27/saturdays-louisville-mob-violence-step-step/6981285/

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2014/03/27/dozens-youths-gather-talk-violence/6981773/

The Chosen One on April 2, 2014 at 10:50 am

Unfortunately, in today’s world, “Scores” on examinations and diplomas, both high school and college, are meaningless. The dumbing down continues. If you have some spare time, just go out in your neighborhood/town/city and ask passers by to name one of their two Senators in congress. Ask who we fought in WW 2. Ask them to name one Amendment to the Constitution. The answers, (If any) to these simple questions will both shock and disappoint you. So mch for “publk edjykayshun.”

Victoryman on April 2, 2014 at 11:05 am

Congratulations to the bigots and racists who had to stoop so low as to question this 17 yr olds accomplishment. We have a young black man who has stepped up to the plate, studied and been responsible and he’s being treated by YOU RACISTS, as if he were a neighborhood thug! Shame on you all….but then you;re racists and you know no shame!

VietVET on April 2, 2014 at 11:23 am

Several commenters have opined that this is a great kid — all his activities, his scholastic greatness (ignoring the probable grade inflation at his school), etc.

My own view is that he is a narcissist. He got accepted at eight different colleges. When I went to college, I got accepted by a few schools, but it didn’t make the newspapers.

How does something like this get publicized? Someone had to tell USA Today and all the other sycophants. Had to be either the kid, his parents, or the school, but with the family’s permission. So, clearly, this family is a bunch of attention-getters. The people I know who went to top schools did not announce their acceptance to the press.

Little Al on April 2, 2014 at 11:42 am

Blacks demand affirmative action because they need it. Otherwise they would be stuck on food stamps and living in Section 8 housing…ehr…that already is happening. I guess affirmative action for a few is a consolation prize.

Federale (@Federale86) on April 2, 2014 at 11:49 am

Not only is affirmative action not fair, it is not fair to the overwhelming majority of those groups it purports (With the possible exception of white women, I am not sure about that).

It would be a lot more efficient to get at the root causes of why members of certain groups lag behind, and for those causes that society can do something about attempt to fix them as early as possible. Waiting until much later for affirmative action not only impacts on fewer people than treating these things early. Besides not being fair, Affirmative Action also negatively impacts on society by placing less qualified people ahead of more qualified people.

Do you want someone more qualified or less qualified responsible for safety in transportation? I could think of many other examples.

I_AM_ME on April 2, 2014 at 1:12 pm

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS RACIST. If you want to be judged on your merits alone, stop affirmative action. I have “negro fatigue” from all their whining and moaning about how they are oppressed. They are NOT oppressed. They have an aversion to hard work. They prefer to play the race card. Do away with affirmative action to allow merit only to be the sole criteria. The black community today has no idea what oppression is, and NONE of them were ever slaves. This kid was admitted to Ivy league colleges because he’s black, not merit.

FriscoKid on April 2, 2014 at 1:49 pm

Little Al:

His parents are registered nurses, not doctors.

http://gothamist.com/2014/04/02/all-ivy_li_student_credits_immigran.php

Gerald on April 2, 2014 at 2:27 pm

Not sure where the idea that his parents are doctors came from. I did not see it in any media source. I was also able to find Enin’s father listed on a professional nursing site pretty easily. Did not find one for his mother however.

G: Yesterday’s USA Today article online said they are both doctors and studied medicine. Today, it says they are both nurses, and so I’m making a note/correction. DS

Gerald on April 2, 2014 at 2:32 pm

@Debbie:

Blast USA Today. I rarely read that site anymore anyway.

Incidentally, this site says that 2250 is 99.2 percentile for all students, not just black ones.

http://www.satscores.us/sat_scores_by_score.asp?score=2250

This site says pretty much the same. It also has a list of schools that a 2250 SAT score would have a pretty good chance of getting you into.

http://www.collegesimply.com/guides/2250-on-the-sat/#.UzxduIRkJfa

Also note the 25/75 for various colleges according to that list.

Harvard University 2210 2390
MIT 2190 2350
Dartmouth College 2140 2350
Princeton University 2210 2390
Penn 2120 2310
Brown University 2100 2310
Columbia University 2190 2360
Yale University 2190 2380
Northwestern University 2150 2310
Amherst College 2090 2300
Stanford University 2160 2350
Yale University 2190 2380
Cal Tech 2250 2380
UC-Berkeley 1990 2230

(Berkeley is on there because even though it is a state school, California banned racial preferences at state universities with Proposition 209, the Ward Connerly amendment).

Sorry, but if you are in the 25/75 percentile for Cal Tech, the most selective major college in the country, you can generally get into an Ivy League school. FYI only 13% of Cal Tech’s student body is black or Hispanic, so that means that at least 12% of the Cal Tech students with a 2250 or lower who got into Cal Tech are white or Asian.

I will take no position on anything else asserted. These are just numbers, and numbers do not lie. Which is one of the main reasons why I decided to get a degree in engineering and not sociology. Well that is not entirely true, going pay rate for engineers as opposed to sociologists was the main reason. But the “numbers not lying” thing is a nice side bonus.

G: The document I linked to is from the College Board, which is the only trustworthy authority on the stats regarding the SAT scores (in this case, for 2013) by race, percentile, etc., because it creates and administers the test, but also compiles and releases the scores, and it says his score is in the 98th percentile, not 99th. As for the schools you cite and the average SAT scores for admission, perhaps you forget that those averages include minorities who were given affirmative action and, so, they bring down the average test score of those admitted. Give me a list of average test score for all non-minorities admitted into any of those schools, or Whites and Asians, and it will be a much higher number. But these schools deliberately don’t release that information. When the University of Michigan was sued over its blatant racism in affirmative action admissions, it was forced to release such data, and it showed exactly what I’m saying. The minorities’ test scores were embarrassingly low on average, and the minorities were given a large number of points just for being a minority. That number was either close to, the same, or more than the number of points given for a perfect SAT score. DS

Gerald on April 2, 2014 at 3:08 pm

Apple sauce. My last post didn’t take. I will try again and modify it slightly in case I did something that offended Ms. Schlussel’s spam blocker. If it results in a double-posts I apologize in advance.

@Debbie:

Blast USA Today. I rarely read that site anymore anyway.

Incidentally, this site says that 2250 is 99 percentile for all students, not just black ones. I found several that corroborated. Most of them was based on kids who took the test in 2012 though. Finding one other than the totally useless one from the College Board that reflected kids who took the test in 2013 eluded me. This list also has a list of schools that a 2250 SAT score would have a pretty good chance of getting you into, which I will highlight.

http://www.collegesimply.com/guides/2250-on-the-sat/#.UzxduIRkJfa

Also note the 25/75 for various colleges according to that list.

Harvard University 2210 2390
MIT 2190 2350
Dartmouth College 2140 2350
Princeton University 2210 2390
Penn 2120 2310
Brown University 2100 2310
Columbia University 2190 2360
Yale University 2190 2380
Northwestern University 2150 2310
Amherst College 2090 2300
Stanford University 2160 2350
Yale University 2190 2380
Cal Tech 2250 2380
UC-Berkeley 1990 2230

(Berkeley is on there because even though it is a state school, California banned racial preferences at state universities with Proposition 209, the Ward Connerly amendment).

Sorry, but if you are in the 25/75 percentile for Cal Tech, the most selective major college in the country, you can generally get into an Ivy League school. FYI only 13% of Cal Tech’s student body is black or Hispanic, so that means that at least 12% of the Cal Tech students with a 2250 or lower who got into Cal Tech are white or Asian.

I will take no position on anything else asserted. These are just numbers, and numbers do not lie. Which is one of the main reasons why I decided to get a degree in engineering and not sociology. Well that is not entirely true, going pay rate for engineers as opposed to sociologists was the main reason. But the “numbers not lying” thing is a nice side bonus.

Gerald on April 2, 2014 at 3:12 pm

I give the kid credit. Yet here in ny they are praising him like he cured cancer. Yes he is a high achiever. However, every news station and paper highlighted his achievement. You can bet if he was white he would not have gotten the publicity. It’s as if the papers have to seek out and promote the high achieving black guy.

Glen Benjamin on April 2, 2014 at 4:08 pm

@Debbie:

“As for the schools you cite and the average SAT scores for admission, perhaps you forget that those averages include minorities who were given affirmative action and, so, they bring down the average test score of those admitted. Give me a list of average test score for all non-minorities admitted into any of those schools, or Whites and Asians, and it will be a much higher number.”

That is why the 25/75 percentiles are much more useful than the averages. Blacks and Hispanics combined are 25% of the population. Also, the combined black/Hispanic population of any selective college is going to be far lower. For example, blacks are 6% of the Harvard undergraduate student body, and less than 5% of the Brown student body. So when you consider that the 25% of Harvard was lower than this kid’s score, and that the 25% of Brown was substantially lower (by 150 points!) and the same was true of Dartmouth and Penn, it is clear that a lot of white and Asian students with less than 2250 routinely get into Ivy League schools, and as a matter of fact the number of whites and Asians who did the same or worse on the SAT attending Ivy League schools certainly equals or exceeds the entire black population at those institutions. Because even with affirmative action, 93% to 96% of the students at those schools are not black. To put it another way, if only 6% of Harvard students are black, that still leaves a maximum of 19% to make up the 25% quartile. And as this Enis fellow scored above the 25% quartile, he would not be counted in that 25%. Instead, he is statistically within the “middle 50%” at all the Ivy League schools on that list (7 of them, Cornell, the Ivy that I like best, is not on there, and considering the vast Cornell University-Technion-Israel join research venture it should be yours too) and is actually within the shouting distance of the top 25% of some of them. Take Penn and Brown … he is 60 points from the upper echelon at Brown, meaning that his SAT scores were better than more than half the student body.

So yes, it is true that some whites and Asians make perfect scores on the SAT and do not get into Ivy League schools, but that does not apply here, because clearly not a few whites and Asians received lower scores than this fellow did and gained acceptance to Ivy League schools, especially Penn and Brown. In other words, it is impossible to talk about the whites and Asians who make perfect scores and did not get in while this kid did while excluding from consideration the many whites and Asians who did not even achieve this kid’s score and got in also.

Again, social sciences are not my thing, but numbers are what they are.

Gerald on April 2, 2014 at 5:19 pm

Is this real life?! The highest you can score on the SAT is 2400. He scored 2250. There is not a Black or White test or scoring system. Pretty effing fantastic, if you ask me. I’m sure every kid in America would be very happy with that score. Beyond his SAT scores he seems to be a very well-rounded, spectacular kid. Bringing up affirmative action anytime a Black person does anything well at this point is just lazy. Women, white women in particular, benefit the most from affirmative action. That’s a fact. Look it up. Debbie and the rest of you making that claim have got to do better than that.

*FYI- I came across this website by mistake. I make a habit of not visiting the dark and disgusting corners of the Internet that include websites like this, but after reading Debbie’s post I had to say something.

Rolly on April 2, 2014 at 8:32 pm

I say great for him, he sounds like a fine young man. However the question is “If he had checked white or caucasian on his applications would he have been accepted to all 8 Ivy league schools” ??? We all know the answer is NO and that’s the issue people have. He was chosen over more qualified people solely based on the color of his skin which is racism and it is wrong.

jimmyPx on April 2, 2014 at 8:35 pm

This must be an East coast thing.
Me and the rest of America don’t fully understand what the big deal is about Ivy League schools.
From all that I’ve read, over the years the academic standards of the Ivies has fallen so far that companies are not falling over themselves anymore to hire Ivy graduates.

The real test is not what school you come from, but what you do after you graduate.
They are private schools and can do whatever they want.
Having seen reverse discrimination firsthand, I understand the anger of people that see less qualified people going the front of the line and pushing out more qualified applicants for schools.

Not that it will happen with this young man, but the another tragedy is where less qualified minorities are admitted to top notch colleges and then drop out because the standards are so high. When if they would had gone to a college more suited to their level they would have graduated with honors.
More lives destroyed in the name of political correctness.

Steve G. on April 2, 2014 at 8:47 pm

Yes ,affirmative action,dating from the time of Nixon is racially biased . Don’t let us forget that it was designed to help those of a lesser educational level get a step in the right direction . Unfortunately it meant that more suitable people were often left out so a color quota could be maintained. I had thought that the USA had finished with this nonsense decades ago. Since the election of Obama it is as if the country has gone back to a political correctness,another form of outdated social engineering,as it happens.

Aron B on April 3, 2014 at 1:24 am

One of the problems with sending a high school graduate to a college or university for which they are not adequately prepared is failure. The student under discussion would probably do well in a second tier institution. By asking such a student to perform above their apparent ability, you risk transforming a successful student into a sullen dropout.

Worry on April 3, 2014 at 1:37 am

According to SAT tables, in 2013 a combined score of 2250 would have actually placed him in the 99th percentile. However, there were 16,000 test-takers who scored that high in 2013 and I guarantee that most would not have been accepted to all of the Ivy League schools. Asian and White kids routinely get rejected with high scores. It is clear that this kid was accepted to all of the Ivy League schools because of the color of his skin.

Kurt on April 3, 2014 at 9:08 am

I wonder who will pay his tuition?

Ken O on April 3, 2014 at 12:01 pm

The misstatement that both of Enin’s parents were doctors is interesting. This particular misstatement was corrected, but how knows how many other misstatements there are about this person’s attainments that have NOT been corrected. Doctors/nurses == a forewarning of possible others. We msut read these adulatory accounts with an attitude of wariness.

Little Al on April 3, 2014 at 4:14 pm

atimmons, Bush wasn’t as dumb as you claim. Do you not remember when the IQ scores determined from military aptitude test for both John Kerry and Bush were leaked in 2004 and Bush scored higher than Kerry?

I would bet money that Bush’s IQ is higher than Obama’s! How exactly did Obama get into Harvard other than based on the color of his skin? Neither Obama’s SAT scores nor his college records have ever been released, presumably to hide the fact that his acceptance was primarily based on skin color.

You see, some of the real victims of Affirmative Action are blacks as anyone with a brain and common sense is going to realize that there is a good chance that this kid only got into Harvard as part of a racial handout. It’s a disservice to him, as his SAT score probably is high enough to get him into one or more, but not all, of the Ivy League schools.

Kurt on April 4, 2014 at 4:22 am

Ivy League colleges consider far more than SAT scores. A 2250 is above the median SAT score for EVERY Ivy League college. George Bush got in to Yale with a 1300 on the old SAT which would be about a 2000 on the current SAT.

Class rank is not relevant without looking at the courses taken. This young man took numerous Advanced Placement courses instead of padding his gpa and class rank with easy courses.

AlanHouston on April 4, 2014 at 6:17 pm

The other notable fact is the young man attended a mediocre public high school yet earned an SAT score comparable to honors graduates of $50,000 per year prep schools such as Andover. In a typical year Andover sends 50 or more graduates to the Ivy League while an average public school may send one.

The SAT data indicates going to an average private school kid scores about 1800 on the SAT compared with 1400 at an average public school. The most elite of private schools average about 2000. That means THIS young man started out with a 600 point handicap compared with a student at Andover and yet he earned a score as high or higher than most wealthy white Andover students.

He did not apply to eight Ivy League colleges to “show off”. He was hoping to be admitted to one and hey bought eight lottery tickets.

AlanHouston on April 4, 2014 at 6:37 pm

Hey, Little Al, this link has an article about Enin and his genius, and it includes the essay that got him accepted in to all 8 schools. Read it and tell me where’s the black english: http://www.ryot.org/read-college-essay-got-teen-into-8-ivy-league-schools/628277

Enin is a genius!

Tyrone on April 5, 2014 at 12:37 am

Man, f*ck all yall racist crackers! I’m tired of the white man telling lies about the superior intelligence of my proud nubian ancestors. The black man built the pyramids using the math he invented…..the same math you cracker ass honkeys use on tests to get in to college. Enin is an average black man, but you honkeys make it seem like he is one in a mil. Me and like 8 of my classmates here at Sojourner-Douglass College, an elite school in B-more City, could get into any ivy league school, But why go to a cracker school to learn history from the mind of the oppressor of truth….the white man, when I can learn the true history about how my people were behind most of humanity’s greatest achievements.

Jamal on April 5, 2014 at 1:04 am

Little Al, the website shows a photo of the actual essay.

tyrone on April 5, 2014 at 12:47 pm

This is the most racist rant I’ve ever read in my entire life. Your hatred of the black race all of it’s accomplishments show your ignorance at monumental proportions. You actually sound like something that fell out of Anne Coulters Ass!

Rhasheene on April 5, 2014 at 1:28 pm