My first thought on seeing the headline...no way this kid is white.
My first thought on seeing the headline...no way this kid is white.
Exactly. This story is not uncommon. There is intense competition among elite universities for academically qualified black boys because there are so few of them.
He's the magic candidate for top universities, who are always preaching diversity - both black and a high achiever. I knew similar young man - son of two highly successful Nigerian (immigrant) doctors, and of course very smart himself. Was admitted to all universities he applied to.
I don't want to diminish his achievement, but there is no way you would ever see an Asian or White student with the same acceptance rate.
Yup - Great scores for certain and congrats to the kid. But a white kid would have only made it into 6-8 of those colleges, with a scholarship at maybe 1. An Asian kid would have made it into 2-4 of those colleges with 0 scholarships.
Our white son had similar SATs and was accepted at 5 of those schools. But no scholarship. He had to go somewhere that offered him something.
No, he's Brown.
No, he’s not white. But it sounds like Lamar is an excellent school. Named after a slave owner and slave trader, though. Mirabeau Lamar died in 1859, so the school wasn’t renamed like those named after prominent Confederates were.