Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega...
by jlawson on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @04:38PM
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I'll help. Of Harvard students:
39.7% are white. (American white population share: 59.3%. So whites are already dramatically under-represented).
17% (43% of 39.7%) of all students are white and legacy.
So of all students, 22.7% are white and not legacy.
Harvard class is 10% Jewish overall (American Jewish population share: 2.1% [2], so they are 5x over-represented)
Jews are nearly all counted as white. If they're legacy at the same rate as other whites, about 4.3% (43% of 10%) of total students are Jewish legacy, while 5.7% are Jewish non-legacy.
Subtracting 5.7% from 22.7%, that means that 16% of Harvard students are white non-Jewish non-legacy.
The US is 59.3% white [1] and 2.1% Jewish [2], so 57.2% non-Jewish white.
57.2% of population is funneled down to 16% of the slots - this is a massive under-representation; non-legacy non-Jewish whites basically cannot get into Harvard. Their chances are 4x (!) lower even than the overall population's very low chances.
No other major ethnic group is nearly this under-represented in the Harvard non-legacy admission process. This is the result of this group being disfavored.
Source is the article above, and Harvard's own statistics, available from many sources. Here's one [0]
39.7% are white. (American white population share: 59.3%. So whites are already dramatically under-represented).
17% (43% of 39.7%) of all students are white and legacy.
So of all students, 22.7% are white and not legacy.
Harvard class is 10% Jewish overall (American Jewish population share: 2.1% [2], so they are 5x over-represented)
Jews are nearly all counted as white. If they're legacy at the same rate as other whites, about 4.3% (43% of 10%) of total students are Jewish legacy, while 5.7% are Jewish non-legacy.
Subtracting 5.7% from 22.7%, that means that 16% of Harvard students are white non-Jewish non-legacy.
The US is 59.3% white [1] and 2.1% Jewish [2], so 57.2% non-Jewish white.
57.2% of population is funneled down to 16% of the slots - this is a massive under-representation; non-legacy non-Jewish whites basically cannot get into Harvard. Their chances are 4x (!) lower even than the overall population's very low chances.
No other major ethnic group is nearly this under-represented in the Harvard non-legacy admission process. This is the result of this group being disfavored.
Source is the article above, and Harvard's own statistics, available from many sources. Here's one [0]
[0] https://admissionsight.com/harvard-diversity-statistics/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews