Posted on 11/25/2014 4:40:42 AM PST by Theoria
Nearly a century ago, Harvard had a big problem: Too many Jews. By 1922, Jews accounted for 21.5 percent of freshmen, up from 7 percent in 1900 and vastly more than at Yale or Princeton. In the Ivy League, only Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania had a greater proportion of Jews.
Harvard’s president, A. Lawrence Lowell, warned that the “Jewish invasion” would “ruin the college.” He wanted a cap: 15 percent. When faculty members balked, he stacked the admissions process to achieve the same result. Bolstered by the nativism of the time, which led to sharp immigration restrictions, Harvard’s admissions committee began using the euphemistic criteria of “character and fitness” to limit Jewish enrollment. As the sociologist Jerome Karabel has documented, these practices worked for the next three decades to suppress the number of Jewish students.
A similar injustice is at work today, against Asian-Americans. To get into the top schools, they need SAT scores that are about 140 points higher than those of their white peers. In 2008, over half of all applicants to Harvard with exceptionally high SAT scores were Asian, yet they made up only 17 percent of the entering class (now 20 percent). Asians are the fastest-growing racial group in America, but their proportion of Harvard undergraduates has been flat for two decades.
A new lawsuit filed on behalf of Asian-American applicants offers strong evidence that Harvard engages in racial “balancing.” Admissions numbers for each racial and ethnic group have remained strikingly similar, year to year. Damningly, those rare years in which an unusually high number of Asians were admitted were followed by years in which especially few made the cut.
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I was thinking, imagine nowadays if someone said there were too many jews (or any other minority), in a school or some other organization. he’d be fired before his supper got cold.
but they do that to white, male, Christians all the time.
I believe so..They are way too intelligent to meet the criteria.
My advice would be to take race, religion, gender, and name off the applications completely. Apply by social security number or redact the name completely to the admissions decision committee. Names are usually a sure give away for gender and can be for race as well. I have never known a white guy named Tyrone, a Christian named Goldstein, or a black person named Chin.
That said, Harvard is a private school. It pisses me off a lot more when it is a government subsidized institution.
How Asians became white...
They can’t do that, the school would instantly be sued for disparate outcome
“Bolstered by the nativism of the time...” is leftist-speak for progressivism. Since progressives are preternaturally unable to criticize themselves,s they make up names like nativism to take the place of precise descriptions of their own sins. The use of literary scapegoats, as it were. Absolving their own sins with newspeak.
Why, you want a meritocracy, don’t you?
One of my favorite quotes from Reagan comes from his days as governor of CA. He was told that if strictly merit scoring was used for admissions, UC Berkeley would be mostly Asian. His response: “So?”
I agree with Reagan. If an Asian meets the qualifications and can pay, why shouldn’t he or she be attend? The only answer is, “because of their skin color.” Would love to see someone ask one of these academic elitists that simple question.
George Orwell was an expert on this topic!
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