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The SAT scores of the candidate of the mayor of Dem Zohran Mamdani were revealed in the middle of the controversy: report

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After being reported that the candidate for the New York Socialist Democratic Town Hall, Zohran Mamdani, identified himself as “Asian” and “black / African-American” in his request at Columbia University, his SAT scores were revealed to be lower than the median score of students admitted to school, according to a new report.

Independent journalist Christopher RUFO said on Monday that, according to Mamdani’s request from Columbia, he scored 2140 out of 2400 in SAT, which is below the median score of students admitted to the university in 2009.

A 2009 university statement said that students admitted to the 2013 promotion marked between 2110 and 2300 SAT, which would have placed Mamdani in the range but below the median.

Mamdani said that he identifies himself as “an American who was born in Africa” ​​and said that the verification of several boxes was an effort to reflect his “complex context”, so as not to obtain more in the competitive admission process.

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A New York Times report on Thursday discovered that the hope of mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani had identified as black / African-American on his request to the prestigious University of Columbia in 2009. (Getty Images)

But at the time, Columbia, like many elite universities, used admissions concerned with the breed, a system that the Supreme Court announced in 2023.

Mamdani, who is the Democratic candidate for the mayor of New York, identified as “black or African-American” at his request from the University of Columbia 2009, even if he now says that he does not consider himself black, The New York Times reported Thursday.

According to the Times, internal data came from a database disclosed from the previous applications of Columbia which were part of a recent hack targeting the Ivy League school.

Mamdani, then a high school student, also checked “Asian” and would have written in “Ugandan” in space for additional training. He was ultimately not accepted in Columbia even if his father is a teacher at the elite school.

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The candidate for the Democrat mayor, Zohran Mamdani, speaks during a rally at the headquarters of the Council of Trades of the Hotel & Gaming in New York, on Wednesday July 2, 2025. (AP photo / Richard Drew)

“Even if these boxes are binding,” said Mamdani, “I wanted my university application to reflect who I was.”

Mamdani told Times that outside of these college forms, he does not remember never having identified as black or African-American.

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His parents are both of Indian origin. His father, the professor of Columbia, Mahmood Mamdani, has lived in East Africa for generations, but Mamdani said that there had been mixed marriages in the family with indigenous African groups.

Mamdani looked into his South Asian and Muslim identity on the campaign track. During a June speech at the National Action Network in Al Sharpton, he also underlined his African roots: “I was born in Kampala, Uganda … I was given my second first name, Kwame, by my father, who appointed me the first Prime Minister of Ghana.”

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Mamdani proposed a list of political changes to radically modify New York more in line with his democratic socialist vision. He presents himself to overthrow the mayor as a outgoing president of New York, Eric Adams, who was elected Democrat but who now presents himself to re -election as an independence.

The former Democratic mayor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, also presents himself to the mayor as an independence.

Fox News Digital contacted Mamdani and Columbia University to comment but did not receive an answer before the publication.

Jasmine Baehr of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.

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