Re:Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions pro...
by chillacy on Friday July 06, 2018 @12:28PM
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I think you and the parent poster are both correct. Modern admissions came about from antisemitism, but jewish students are overrepresented today. I found two different numbers online for harvard undergards, one at 12% and one at 25%, which either way is an overrepresentation of the baseline ~2% of Americans.
> Yale University’s undergrad student body is 27 percent Jewish (1,500 Jewish undergrads out of 5,477 total). Percentage-wise, it narrowly beats out its Ivy League rival Harvard University, which is 25 percent Jewish (1,675 out of 6,694 undergrads). But Cornell University and Columbia University both have more Jews in total — 3,000 and 1,800, respectively.
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-co...
> Yale University’s undergrad student body is 27 percent Jewish (1,500 Jewish undergrads out of 5,477 total). Percentage-wise, it narrowly beats out its Ivy League rival Harvard University, which is 25 percent Jewish (1,675 out of 6,694 undergrads). But Cornell University and Columbia University both have more Jews in total — 3,000 and 1,800, respectively.
https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/harvard-uni...