April 7, 2015, - 3:10 pm
Black Kid Admitted to All 8 Ivy League Schools Isn’t What Media Claims – Part 2; Affirmative Action Still Rules
The media is once again slobbering (like they did last year) because, yet again, a Black kid got admitted into all eight Ivy League schools. And, yet again, the kid isn’t what the media is making him out to be. While he’s incredibly smart, affirmative action definitely played a role, unless there are a whole buncha White and Indian students (of the Asian variety) who got into all eight and the media isn’t telling us about it.
FOX News Morning Dolts Gush Over Ivy League Affirmative Action Beneficiary (Officially Sponsored by the Word “Like”) . . .
On Sunday evening, I got a call from NBC in New York, and I could see the number on my Caller ID. But it was still the second day of Passover (with an 1.5 hours to go before it ended), and my religion prohibits me from answering the phone on Jewish holidays (but for emergencies). So, I didn’t take the call, knowing I was probably missing out on some great media opportunity. After the holiday ended, I called the number back. The man who answered told me he was a “Today Show” producer looking to book me for a story on affirmative action for Monday morning’s show. He told me they’d already booked Mindy Kaling’s brother, instead. If you’ve read the stories, Kaling’s bro, Vijay Chokal-Ingam, pretended to be Black and got into the same medical school that rejected him when he identified honestly as Indian-American. His conclusion–one that many of us who are White already know–is that affirmative action is pure racism. This is true in Hollywood, too, as evidenced by his (reportedly estranged) sister’s success, which is based largely on the fact that she, too, is a minority with significantly dark skin. She definitely benefits from Hollywood’s diversity push. After all, Mindy Kaling isn’t funny, and her sitcom on FOX stinks. Her whole act is, “Hi, I’m one of the few fat Indian chicks. Now laugh!” Sorry, no chuckles here.
I had my own blatant experience with the racism that is affirmative action, when I applied to Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a wealthy Black chick with horrible grades and test scores was admitted instead of me. I’ve recounted the story on this site before. The local Georgetown alumni member who interviewed both of us (and recommended me for admission) was fired from this volunteer position after he rightfully wrote an angry letter to Georgetown about the blatant discrimination. He’d rated me a “9,” which was at the time the highest rating an alumnus interviewer could give an applicant, and the first and only time he’d given out a 9. He gave the wealthy black chick a “2,” the lowest of all the area applicants to Georgetown’s Foreign Service School. My parents were middle class and I went to a public high school in a majority Black city and grew up in a Black neighborhood. This girl lived in an expensive, lily-white zip code and went to the most expensive private school in town, Detroit Country Day. And on every level, I’d bested her . . . except in the all-important preferred skin complexion category.
And so it goes with Harold Ekeh, who was recently admitted into all eight Ivy League schools and who just happens to be Black. He’s reportedly the only applicant to get into all eight.
If the story sounds familiar, it should. Last year, I wrote about Kwasi Enin, another Black student who was also admitted into all eight Ivy League schools. And I was roundly attacked for questioning the gushing and his Ivy admissions, mostly by Black Americans in denial. They insist on affirmative action but then call us racist when we point out how they benefit from this accepted institutional racism. They can point out fictional “White privilege,” but we aren’t allowed to point out actual, documented, proven, overt “Black privilege” in the form of affirmative action and insistence upon “diversity” solely for diversity’s sake.
The same goes for Mr. Ekeh. He sounds like a brilliant, incredibly talented and gifted person, and there’s no denying that. But he’s also Black, which would explain how he got into all eight Ivies when, news stories claim, nobody else did. If a White person or an Asian-American (particularly Chinese or Indian) got into all eight Ivies, I doubt we’d be hammered over the head with the story, though. We’d probably never know.
You see, Ekeh’s SAT scores were 2270. On the face of it, that’s pretty smart (although, as I’ve reported on these pages, the SAT has been significantly dumbed down over the years–including allowing the use of calculators, eliminating deductions for wrong answers, and getting rid of the use of words that aren’t used in the everyday English vernacular). His score is in the 99th percentile in 2014, when he presumably took the test. But, in fact, 13,760 SAT takers in 2014 scored higher than Ekeh. And 1,703 got the same score as he did. Add them to the total, and 15,463 people scored as well as he did or better on the SAT test. How many of them applied to all eight Ivy League schools and didn’t get in? How many of them got into NONE of the Ivy League schools? A lot of them, I’ll bet.
The incoming classes at each of the Ivies are very small, with most accepting only a couple thousand applicants or less. And, yet, Harold Ekeh was more qualified in the eyes of admissions counselors at all eight Ivies than most of the 15,463 people who scored as high or better than he did; and more qualified than the 13,760 who scored better than he did. We know these schools give a leg up to Black applicants, a leg up that Whites don’t get. Even if he scored in the 98th percentile, I’ll bet he’d have gotten into all eight Ivies, and that would have added an additional 20,000 applicants to the mix. We know that these schools have quotas and admit a certain number of Black applicants, judging them only against other Black applicants (whose test scores are lower on average than Whites and Asians), rather than the entire pool of applicants.
Kwasi Enin–last year’s All-Eight-Ivies man–got 2250 on the SATs. And he was only 11th in his graduating class at a public high school, as I pointed out. And the other 10 people who got better grades than he did didn’t get into all eight Ivies (some of them probably didn’t get into any Ivies). I can’t find any information on where Harold Ekeh fell in his class rankings academically.
To give you an idea of how difficult it is to get into the Ivies (unless you are of the preferred minority groups), here are a few stats from the article on Ekeh:
Harvard only accepts 5.9 per cent of applicants – roughly 2,000 of the 34,000 submissions they receive. Yale accepts 6.3 per cent of the 30,000 students who apply, and Columbia only 6.9 per cent of 32,000. Cornell has the highest acceptance rate of the eight Ivies – a minuscule 14 per cent of the 43,000 applicants.
And if you look at Ekeh’s activities, he was editor of his high school newspaper and was in the Model U.N. (or as my friend Adam Taxin rightly calls it, the “Model Anti-Israel U.N.”). Nothing that impressive and not anything that nearly every single applicant to the Ivies has on their resume.
By definition, Harold Ekeh is a one of America’s best and brightest. Statistically, he is in the 99th percentile on an IQ test and that can’t be denied. He plans to be a neurosurgeon and wants to find the cure for Alzheimer’s. That’s laudable and to be encouraged. If he were my doctor and about to operate on me, I’d be confident I was in good hands. He is probably smarter than most of the doctors I have now. But while he is among America’s best and brightest, his test scores indicate he’s also statistically not good enough to beat out nearly 20,000 people who fared better on the test and didn’t get into all eight Ivies. Without race on his application, there’s simply no way he’d have been accepted to all Eight Ivies. And maybe he wouldn’t have been accepted to any at all.
So all of this hype is really about nothing. But you won’t hear that anywhere because that would be immediately shouted down as “RAAAAAAYYYYYYCIST!” Predictably, the airheaded dolts on FOX News’ morning show gushed over this guy, too. (And they also gushed over Miss Hezbollah USA, so I’m not surprised.)
By the way, Ekeh, himself, credits his admissions into all eight schools on his application essay. In it he describes the struggle his Nigerian family had to fit in after they immigrated to America. Do you think an Israeli person or Norwegian person–if he or she wrote such an essay–would get admitted to all eight Ivies? Even if he or she had a 2270 on the SATs and edited his/her high school newspaper?
Think again.
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It does bear noting that both Ekeh and last year’s All-Eight-Ivies man, Kwasi Enin, came from immigrant families and were not from the American urban welfare state hip-hop culture. It goes without saying that the characteristics of that culture have a very negative correlation to success.
Tags: Admission to all Eight Ivy League Schools, Admission to all Ivy League Schools, affirmative action, college admissions, Harold Ekeh, Ivy League, Racism
They’re Nigerian Christian and it should be pointed immigrant blacks greatly value education and hard work.
My point they would have gotten even without affirmative action.
In contrast, native black Americans look down on schooling as “acting white.”
The real story here isn’t about skin color or race; its about a person’s values and their dedication to living by them – which is color-blind.
But I bet the media won’t highlight that because it puts Black America in a bad light as far getting ahead in life goes.
Not everything in this country is about racism no matter how much the media and the race merchants try to make it the issue. Harold Ekweh and Kwasi Enin are proof it doesn’t exist.
NormanF on April 7, 2015 at 3:56 pm