> But figuring out what will pique the interest of some WASP in Harvard's admissions office takes special cultural knowledge. Given that the Ivy League is only

> But figuring out what will pique the interest of some WASP in Harvard's admissions office takes special cultural knowledge. Given that the Ivy League is only 33% non-Jewish white (compared to ~55% of the US population), and Jewish students have a ~12x better chance than non-Jewish whites at Ivy League admission [1], and are 7x over-represented compared to their US population, while whites are 0.56x under-represented, maybe it's not WASP cultural knowledge you should be targeting. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31306230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31306230