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> Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were recruited athletes, legacy students, children of faculty and staff, or on the dea

> Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were recruited athletes, legacy students, children of faculty and staff, or on the dean’s interest list—applicants whose parents or relatives have donated to Harvard, according to a 2019 study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research. Using just "white" is extremely misleading. Harvard undergraduates are already only 40% white [1], but 10% are Jewish [2] (despite being only 2% of the US population). Meaning non-Jewish whites, which are 56% of the US, are only 30% of Harvard undergraduates. For graduate students it's even more ridiculous - 53% Jewish, 28% non-Jewish white. "White privilege" in action. [1] https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/harvard-university/student-life/diversity/#ethnic_diversity https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/harvard-university/s... [2] https://www.hillel.org/college/harvard-university/ https://www.hillel.org/college/harvard-university/

naniwaduni 4y ago
> For graduate students it's even more ridiculous - 53% Jewish, 28% non-Jewish white. Hold up, is this saying that literally over half of the graduate students are Jewish?? Am I reading this right?
- nhchris 4y ago
  If one filter (not enrolled->enrolled) brings them from 2% to 10%*, it's not beyond possibility that another filter (graduate->undergraduate) would bring another 5x increase. But I'd guess 53% is probably at least a slight over-estimation, and the numbers may not be entirely reliable. Perhaps we should ask for the diversity statistics to count Jewish numbers separately so we could have official numbers, but I suspect that might encounter some resistance :) *For 2015, the Jerusalem Post actually estimates Jews at 25% of undergraduates, but that may be relying on some since-corrected overestimation by Hillel. See 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... and https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduates/ https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat...

naniwaduni 4y ago

> For graduate students it's even more ridiculous - 53% Jewish, 28% non-Jewish white. Hold up, is this saying that literally over half of the graduate students are Jewish?? Am I reading this right?

nhchris 4y ago
If one filter (not enrolled->enrolled) brings them from 2% to 10%*, it's not beyond possibility that another filter (graduate->undergraduate) would bring another 5x increase. But I'd guess 53% is probably at least a slight over-estimation, and the numbers may not be entirely reliable. Perhaps we should ask for the diversity statistics to count Jewish numbers separately so we could have official numbers, but I suspect that might encounter some resistance :) *For 2015, the Jerusalem Post actually estimates Jews at 25% of undergraduates, but that may be relying on some since-corrected overestimation by Hillel. See 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... and https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduates/ https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat...