Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s SAT score has been revealed after the Democratic socialist was sharply criticized over the revelation that he listed himself as African American on his application to Columbia University.
Mamdani received a 2140 out of 2400 on the test, which was on the lower end of median scores for admitted students but was likely above the median score for black students, independent journalist Christopher Rufo reported.
Mamdani listed that he was both “Asian” and “Black/African American” when applying to Columbia University. Paul Martinka for NY Post
Zohran’s father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a professor at Columbia. APThe report links to a 2009 post highlighting the admitted classes’ standardized test scores, with the middle 50% scoring “between 2110 and 2300 on the Math, Critical Reading and Writing sections of the SAT.”
The Uganda-born Mamdani got hammered by critics after the bombshell revelation that he listed that he was both “Asian” and “Black/African American” when applying to Columbia University, where his father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a professor.
The university had affirmative action policies when Mamdani applied in 2009, which critics said may have been the catalyst for the pol listing himself as black in order to get preferential treatment.
The 33-year-old Queens assemblyman told the New York Times, which first reported on Mamdani’s application, that while he doesn’t consider himself “African American,” he considers himself “an American who was born in Africa.”
The application didn’t have a category that fully explained his identity, Mamdani said.
Mamdani scored 2140 out of 2400 on the test. Getty Images/iStockphotoThe New York Times report on Mamdani’s college application was based on hacked documents that were shared with the newspaper.
Mayor Eric Adams, who is running against Mamdani on an independent line for the November general election, has slammed the Democratic nominee’s decision as offensive.
“The African American identity is not a checkbox of convenience. It’s a history, a struggle and a lived experience. For someone to exploit that for personal gain is deeply offensive,” Adams said last week.
Mamdani was ultimately rejected from Columbia and attended Bowdoin College in Maine.
The Mamdani campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
