[Gay State Conservative]

A friend of mine is a Radcliffe grad (before their formal merger with Harvard) one of whose classmates is now at Harvard’s admissions office.That friend tells her that were it not for Harvard’s affirmative action admissions policy just about every class would consist almost entirely of Jews and Asians.I kid you not

[Jewbacca]

“That friend tells her that were it not for Harvard’s affirmative action admissions policy just about every class would consist almost entirely of Jews and Asians.I kid you not.”

It’s true. I went to MIT for aeronautical engineering and was wait listed until the last moment -— even though I had a 4.3, a 1580 SAT (out of 1600 back then), and was a fricking combat FIGHTER PILOT.

I had a candid conversion with admission lady who said the same thing as your friend, who advised me to not reveal I was Jewish in further applications -— which is basically impossible for an Israeli whose first and last name are about as Jewish as they get. Oh, and who explains being out of school after G12 by saying “I was drafted into the Israeli Air Force due to passing certain tests.”

She then told me it was to “right past discrimination” -— that was pretty rich to me, given 3/4 grandparents all but died in the Shoa.

That said, the discrimination put me on the road to being a fire-breathing conservative.

[dfwgator]

That friend tells her that were it not for Harvard’s affirmative action admissions policy just about every class would consist almost entirely of Jews and Asians

My response to that would have been, "So?"