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Jews are overrepresented by ~15x and nobody bats an eye, why would it be a problem with Asians?

chaostheory 8y ago
That's not true. The move from meritocratic, quantitative university admissions policy actually started because of antisemitism. A prominent but anonymous Harvard alumni was shocked that its campus was 'Hebrewized'. Fast forward to today and we have the current status of quo of a 'Holistic' admissions process. "Holistic admissions criteria emerged at Ivy League schools in the early 20th century and were almost immediately twisted for virulently anti-semitic purposes. Until the 1920s, students took an admissions test and those that did well on the test were admitted to the colleges “almost entirely on the basis of academic criteria.” This resulted in lots of Jewish men on the campus of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. An alumni visiting the Harvard campus around this time was shocked by the scene: 'Naturally, after 25 years, one expects to find many changes, but to find that one’s University had become so Hebrewized was a fearful shock. There were Jews to the right of me, Jews to the left of me, in fact they were so obviously everywhere that instead of leaving the Yard with pleasant memories of the past I left with a feeling of utter disgust of the present and grave doubts about the future of my Alma Mater.' It’s around this time that Ivy League schools switched from a strictly quantitative system of test scores to a more subjective, holistic approach." https://priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-discriminate-against-asians https://priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-... Going on a tangent, imo this blog post as one of the starting points of the current spate of lawsuits. The impact and reach of YC companies is huge.
- chillacy 8y ago
  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. https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-college-and-other-facts-about-Jews-at-American-colleges-437701 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-university https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/harvard-uni...
- truthisunpc 8y ago
  "That's not true. The move from meritocratic, quantitative university admissions policy actually started because of antisemitism" And now it's turned into an anti-asian policy enforced by corrupt jews.

That's not true. The move from meritocratic, quantitative university admissions policy actually started because of antisemitism. A prominent but anonymous Harvard alumni was shocked that its campus was 'Hebrewized'. Fast forward to today and we have the current status of quo of a 'Holistic' admissions process. "Holistic admissions criteria emerged at Ivy League schools in the early 20th century and were almost immediately twisted for virulently anti-semitic purposes. Until the 1920s, students took an admissions test and those that did well on the test were admitted to the colleges “almost entirely on the basis of academic criteria.” This resulted in lots of Jewish men on the campus of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. An alumni visiting the Harvard campus around this time was shocked by the scene: 'Naturally, after 25 years, one expects to find many changes, but to find that one’s University had become so Hebrewized was a fearful shock. There were Jews to the right of me, Jews to the left of me, in fact they were so obviously everywhere that instead of leaving the Yard with pleasant memories of the past I left with a feeling of utter disgust of the present and grave doubts about the future of my Alma Mater.' It’s around this time that Ivy League schools switched from a strictly quantitative system of test scores to a more subjective, holistic approach." https://priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-discriminate-against-asians https://priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-... Going on a tangent, imo this blog post as one of the starting points of the current spate of lawsuits. The impact and reach of YC companies is huge.

chillacy 8y ago
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. https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-college-and-other-facts-about-Jews-at-American-colleges-437701 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-university https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/harvard-uni...
truthisunpc 8y ago
"That's not true. The move from meritocratic, quantitative university admissions policy actually started because of antisemitism" And now it's turned into an anti-asian policy enforced by corrupt jews.