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Yale discriminates in favor of Whites. If admissions were based purely on merit as they are at Caltech or Berkeley, you would have far more Asians and far fewer
by fmajid 6y ago
Yale discriminates in favor of Whites. If admissions were based purely on merit as they are at Caltech or Berkeley, you would have far more Asians and far fewer Caucasians. This was also true when they discriminated against Jews (using the same techniques) at a time when Jews were not considered White.
- golemiprague 6y agoJews are not necessarily white, it is just a common misconception among Americans because most Jews in the US are from an east European origin, but that's not the case in France or Israel. Also, what do you mean by merit? who said trying hard and wasting hours and hours to improve high school marks is "merit"? I am not sure the Asian culture of studying signal anything but the ability to invest a lot of time in a young age to solve relatively easy problems. It doesn't signal talent and it might not even signal a particular conscientious in later ages or in the work place. I think the ivy league know that, they know that those Asians are not going to be anything special and that there are many other parameters and signals they have to look at in order to define this elusive "merit".
- _--___-___ 6y agoBy your own post, you seem to consider Jews a separate population from gentile whites. If that were the case, I'd suggest you double check the relative (to national proportion) population of non-athelte/legacy gentile whites at Yale and similar schools before making posts like this.
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