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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by icelancer on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:15PM (#24150900)
Discrimination against Asians and Jews is very similar in most respects, I agree. Definitely seems to be that way here.
Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by rbecker on Friday August 14, 2020 @07:10AM (#24156416)
Yale is 20-27% Jewish [1,2], while the US is just 1.7-2.6% [3]. Few other groups would have the gall to call 10x over-representation as being discriminated against.

[1] https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/yale-univer...

[2] https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-co...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews

Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by igravious on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:55AM (#24166064)
The eight original Ivy League universities in order of undergrad %

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Columbia: ~1,500 of 6,298 undergrads (23%) ; ~3,500 of 22,861 graduates (15%)

Cornell: ~3,000 of 15,043 undergrads (19%) ; ~500 of 8,984 graduates (6%)

Pennsylvania: ~1,750 of 10,019 undergrads (17%) ; ~1,800 of 12,413 graduates (14%)

Brown: ~1,000 of 7,160 undergrads (13%) ; ~200 of 3,173 graduates (6%)

Yale: ~800 of 6,092 undergrads (13%) ; ~1,500 of 7517 graduates (20%)

Harvard: ~780 of 6755 undergrads (11%) ; ~2,500 of 4,698 graduates (53%)

Dartmouth: ~420 of 4459 undergrads (9%) ; ~100 of 2,149 graduates (5%)

Princeton: ~450 of 5,428 undergrads (8%) ; ~250 of 2,946 graduates (8%)

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The eight original Ivy League universities in order of graduate %

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Harvard: ~780 of 6755 undergrads (11%) ; ~2,500 of 4,698 graduates (53%)

Yale: ~800 of 6,092 undergrads (13%) ; ~1,500 of 7517 graduates (20%)

Columbia: ~1,500 of 6,298 undergrads (23%) ; ~3,500 of 22,861 graduates (15%)

Pennsylvania: ~1,750 of 10,019 undergrads (17%) ; ~1,800 of 12,413 graduates (14%)

Princeton: ~450 of 5,428 undergrads (8%) ; ~250 of 2,946 graduates (8%)

Cornell: ~3,000 of 15,043 undergrads (19%) ; ~500 of 8,984 graduates (6%)

Brown: ~1,000 of 7,160 undergrads (13%) ; ~200 of 3,173 graduates (6%)

Dartmouth: ~420 of 4459 undergrads (9%) ; ~100 of 2,149 graduates (5%)

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https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/search#radius=null&sele...

https://www.mastersportal.com/articles/1958/what-are-ivy-lea...

Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by MichaelRazum on Friday August 14, 2020 @07:42AM (#24156614)
That was exactly the same argument the soviet union had. So we have too much jews there, lets limit it. Its not discriminating, since there are already so much jews or asians in the universities (20%+). On the individual level a person get reject based on its race, that is sad.
Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by rbecker on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:04AM (#24156779)
I'm sorry, are you saying that Jewish students are currently, in the US, in Yale, being discriminated against in college applications? Despite the current and previous Yale presidents both being Jewish [1,2]? And that without that discrimination, they would be... what? 40% of all Yale students? More?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Salovey

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Levin

Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by j7ake on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:46AM (#24157160)
No OP was saying Asian students can be discriminated against even if percentage of Asians being accepted were higher than national demographic.
Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by icelancer on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:40AM (#24159340)
Just because Jews and Asians have high enrollment at a university doesn't mean the numbers are being suppressed. It's pretty trivial to show wrt quantitative methods that it is clearly true that it's happening... hence the OP.