Editing Model minority (section)

====Education====
In the 2000 U.S. census, it was revealed that African immigrants were the most educated immigrant group in the United States even when compared to Asian immigrants.<ref name=AfricanEducated1>{{cite journal | doi = 10.2307/2999156 | issue=26 | title=African Immigrants in the United States are the Nation's Most Highly Educated Group | year=1999 | journal=The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | pages=60–61 | jstor=2999156 }}</ref><ref name=BlackAfricanMigration2>{{cite web|title=Black African Migration to the United States|url=http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/africanmigrationus.pdf|publisher=Migrationpolicy.org|access-date=14 July 2013}}</ref> Some 48.9% of all African immigrants hold a college diploma.<ref name=AfricanEducated1/><ref>{{cite web|title=Something You Should Know About African Immigrants in the US . ... Pass It On| date=7 January 2009| url=http://minneafrica.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/something-you-should-know-about-african-immigrants-in-the-us-pass-it-on/|publisher=Minneafrica.wordpress.com|access-date=14 July 2013}}</ref> This is more than double the rate of native-born [[white Americans]], and nearly four times the rate of native-born African Americans. According to the [[2000 United States Census|2000 Census]], the rate of college diploma acquisition is highest among [[Egyptian Americans]] at 59.7%, followed closely by [[Nigerian Americans]] at 58.6%.<ref name="census.gov">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/stp-159/STP-159-nigeria.pdf |title=Table FBP-1: Profile of Selected Demographic and Social Characteristics: People born in Nigeria: 2000 |publisher=Census.gov |access-date=24 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/stp-159/STP-159-egypt.pdf |title=Table FBP-1: Profile of Selected Demographics and Social Characteristics: People born in Egypt: 2000 |publisher=Census.gov |access-date=24 February 2015}}</ref>

In 1997, 19.4% of all adult African immigrants in the United States held a graduate degree, compared to 8.1% of adult white Americans and 3.8% of adult Black Americans in the United States.<ref name=AfricanEducated1 /> According to the 2000 Census, the percentage of Africans with a [[Postgraduate education|graduate degree]] is highest among Nigerian Americans at 28.3%, followed by Egyptian Americans at 23.8%.<ref name="census.gov"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/>

Of the African-born population in the United States age 25 and older, 87.9% reported having a [[high school]] [[academic degree|degree]] or higher,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asian-nation.org/immigrant-stats.shtml |title=Demographics and Statistics of Immigrants: Asian-Nation: Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues |publisher=Asian-Nation |access-date=2010-11-08}}</ref> compared with 78.8% of [[Asian people|Asian]]-born [[immigrants]] and 76.8% of [[European ethnic groups|European]]-born [[immigrants]], respectively.<ref>Characteristics of the African Born in the United States. Migration Policy Institute. January, 2006</ref> This success comes in spite of facts such as that more than 75% of the African [[Foreign born|foreign-born]] in the United States have only arrived since the 1990s and that African immigrants make up a disproportionately small percentage of immigrants coming to the United States such as in 2007 alone African immigrants made up only 3.7% of all immigrants in coming to the United States and again in 2009 they made up only 3.9% of all immigrants making this group a fairly recent to the United States diversity.<ref name="AfricanMigration5">{{cite web|title=Migration African Immigrants|url=http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=719|publisher=Migrationinformation.org|access-date=14 July 2013}}</ref><ref name="AfricanMigrants6">{{cite web|title=Migration Information African Immigrants|url=http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=847|publisher=Migrationinformation.org|access-date=14 July 2013}}</ref>

Of the 8% of students at [[Ivy League]] schools that are Black, a majority, about 50–66%, was made up of Black African immigrants, Caribbean immigrants, and American born to those immigrants.<ref name="BlackModelMinority3" /><ref name="BlackInvisibleModel4" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/us/top-colleges-take-more-blacks-but-which-ones.html|access-date=26 Jun 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 24, 2004|title=Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones?|first1=Sara|last1=Rimer|first2=Karen W.|last2=Arenson }}</ref> Many top universities report that a disproportionate of the Black student population consists of recent immigrants, their children, or were mixed race.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Shades-of-gray-in-black-enrollment-Immigrants-2728709.php |title=Shades of gray in black enrollment: Immigrants' rising numbers a concern to some activists |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=February 22, 2005 |first=Jason B. |last=Johnson }}</ref>