Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019)

Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by anticonformist on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:16PM (#23764766)

That number is wildly inaccurate but even so, it's no doubt very different from the bad old days:

Certain private universities, most notably Harvard, introduced policies which effectively placed a quota on the number of Jews admitted to the university. According to historian David Oshinsky, on writing about Jonas Salk, "Most of the surrounding medical schools (Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had rigid quotas in place. In 1935 Yale accepted 76 applicants from a pool of 501. About 200 of those applicants were Jewish and only five got in." He notes that Dean Milton Winternitz's instructions were remarkably precise: "Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota

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Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by Udik on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:19PM (#23764797)

If Jews are extremely over-represented (with respect to their share in the US population, which is about 1.7%), shouldn't there be an affirmative action for non-jewish students?

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Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by devmunchies on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:32PM (#23764923)

so this is saying Yale accepted 5 jews out of 76 students accepted overall. That's still a whopping 6% of all students accepted even though they make up < 2% of the population. How is that the bad?

Jews have always had it pretty good in the US, don't know what there really is to complain about.

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