Your college admissions officer was spot on.
Private colleges on the East Coast, especially the Ivies
had quotas for both Jewish students and faculty!
Although a bit too liberal for my taste, Paul Samuelson was denied a position in the economics department at Harvard because the faculty already had one Jewish faculty member.
So he went to MIT instead and helped turn it into one of the best economics departments in the world!
You mean that department that trained Paul Krugman and Jonathan Gruber? (snark off!)
Wonder how many Jewish people the Harvard Economics department have now!?!?!?