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Her mother, Annmarie Miller, a nursing assistant at a hospital in the Bronx, recalled a cousin’s reaction when she mentioned Rudi’s pick: “You have to be Chinese or Indian to get in there.” A co-worker, also black, “said the exam is built to exclude blacks because it’s heavy on math, and black people can’t do math,” Mrs. Miller said.

It's amazing the author even put this in the article. This goes to show how racist and prejudiced some blacks are. I wonder how many of the Asian students are actually Chinese. And it's frightening even blacks think blacks are too stupid to do well in math.

I graduated from Stuy in 1970, and perusing my yearbook can report that 48 of 638 (7.5%) fellow grads were black. The school was 99+% male at that point.

Back in the day I never heard of any prep courses offered for the test and most of us probably went in cold and winged it.

I was lucky that my house was 3 blocks away so I never had to endure a ridiculous subway commute like so many of my peers.

As postscript to this article is the continued success we enjoy in the yearly Intel Science Talent Search, a nationwide competition that we routinely dominate. Pardon me while I crow ...

2012 Intel Talent Search Semi-Finalists: 13/300 = 4.3%
2012 Intel Talent Search Finalists 2/40 = 5.0%

For comparison the entire state of California had 10 finalists, 34 states had no finalists and no other high school had more than 1.

Yowsuh! Just par for the course baby ...

Go Peglegs!!!

zig

PS - Go Giants!

And it's frightening even blacks think blacks are too stupid to do well in math.

Well, perhaps the academic inabilities themselves are self-inflicted. Many of the black students certainly don't want their friends to see them "acting white" by doing well in school.