New York's next mayor (presumably) sure seems to be one heck of a guy.
On his Columbia application, Zohran Mamdani checked the boxes for both "Asian" and "African American/Black." The Times has reported the same thing:
Mamdani is in fact Asian, with two Indian parents, and he grew up in Uganda which I guess makes him just as much an African American as Elon Musk.
Rufo explains exactly what's happening here.
As any ambitious youth in America understands, there is a huge payout in marking ‘black' for college applications. Mamdani's father is a professor at Columbia, and his mother is a famous filmmaker, so the idea that he did not understand the Ivy League's racial calculus is not credible ...
I have obtained Mamdani's full Columbia application, which might help unravel this mystery. According to the materials, Mamdani scored a 2140 out of 2400 on the SAT, placing him in the 89th percentile nationwide ...
Hey now, 89th percentile is pretty good! In fact, that's a very good score and would be good enough to get you into almost any school, even Columbia.
That is, as long as you check certain boxes. Particularly the certain boxes on race.
At the time, this was below the median SAT score for admitted students at Columbia and, given the prevailing distribution by race, well below the median SAT score for Asian students, but likely well above the median SAT score for black students — hence, the advantage of marking 'black.'
Weird. Almost like Mamdani knew his score wasn't good enough to get an Asian into Columbia, but was more than enough to get a black person in, therefore he sort of fudged and marked that he was an African American.
Oh, and guess what? According to Rufo, even with his exceptional score, for a non-Asian minority student, Mamdani still was not accepted to Columbia.
The wrinkle in the story, however, is that, despite having a father on the faculty and marking black on his application, Columbia rejected Mamdani. There are two plausible theories for why this happened. First, in general, Columbia is a highly competitive university with an admissions rate of less than ten percent, which means that candidates around the median will not make the cut.
Second, there is a possibility that Mamdani's box-checking gambit backfired. The full application includes the name and contact information for his father, Mahmood Mamdani, and his mother, Mira Nair, both of whom are public figures and neither of whom is black. The application also included a flag noting that the elder Mamdani appeared to be ‘affiliated with Columbia' and another line noting the family's address in an exclusive Manhattan neighborhood. With even cursory research, an admissions officer could have seen that Mr. Mamdani was neither black, nor underprivileged.
In the end, we don't have to know anything about his Columbia application or education to know this guy's a loser, he openly brags about it in his own way.
Here's what the man thinks about Columbus, for whom Columbia University is named.
(He really posted this on June 17, 2020)
It's pretty clear that the Left is not sending their best (or maybe they are 😂).
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