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Great post, and a very sad story (with a happy ending). Unfortunately, US (and others) universities applied similar policies (probably, more subtly though) up t
by vj44 14y ago
Great post, and a very sad story (with a happy ending).
Unfortunately, US (and others) universities applied similar policies (probably, more subtly though) up to 1970:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerus_clausus#Numerus_clausus_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerus_clausus#Numerus_clausus...
- lesterbuck 14y agoHarvard and Columbia, among elite US universities, had quotas for Jewish admissions. The entire idea of saving spaces for legacy admissions is apparently one of the tactics used to block ethnic groups from admission. Even Richard Feynman was subject to these quotas, and when he was rejected from Colombia as over quota, he went to MIT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota