Earlier this year my son got into the Center for Talented Youth program at Johns Hopkins, and we recently attended an award ceremony for the kids who got the highest scores on the entrance exam. 22 children from western New York state chose to attend the event and I was interested in the distribution of their backgrounds, which I've detailed below.

6 Chinese: (Chen, Fang, Feng, Hu, Lin, Ren) -- 27%

3 Jewish: (Arias, Raskin, Rutberg) -- 14%

3 WASP: (Harrow, Smith, Wells) -- 14%

2 Indian: (Bhatt, Pendri) -- 9%

2 Korean: (Lee, Lee) -- 9%

1 African-American (Amos) -- 5%

1 Nigerian: (Shoyinka) -- 5%

1 German (Heinzelman) -- 5%

1 Greek (Levedakis) -- 5%

1 Portuguese (Antunes) -- 5%

1 Ukrainian (Homik) -- 5%

Immigrants are still making America great.