Nigerian Teen gets accepted into all IVY League Schools

[KittenMittens]

I fail to see how someone with a 4.0 gpa and a 2270 SAT (99th percentile) score getting accepted to top schools is surprising. He was also the 2nd runner up in a national science competition sponsored by Microsoft. This isn't the case of a poorly prepared applicant getting accepted because of affirmative action. He was simply an amazing candidate. Why the jump to conclusions based on race?

Here's an Asian kid with similar stats and also a semi-finalist in both Siemens and Intel, but he was rejected from all ivies except Cornell which is the easiest of the ivies to get into.

It's not so much that he got into an ivy league school, it's that he got into all 8 of them which is a blatant pass based on race. An Asian or White applicant with those credential wouldn't have gotten into all of them, maybe one or two or three, but not all 8. There was another black student the year before who got into all 8. Is that just merit, luck, or the race card? Statistically, the odds of getting into 8 ivy league, let alone 1, are almost non-existent. But to get into all 8? A 4.0 GPA and 2270 SAT are extremely good, but not good enough to get into all 8. A 2270 SAT score means that 13,760 SAT takers beat him. So how many of those 13,760 got into 8 ivy league schools, let alone just 1? Furthermore, the black kid who got into all 8 ivy league schools the year before had a 2250, ranked 11 in the class, so was this guy too also super qualified?

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.

Simple probability dictates that the odds of getting into all 4 schools mentioned here is basically 0%.