Good. Now if only everyone else could follow suit.
Before we had kids, I worked at Emory Univ. Beautiful campus with lots of Jewish students, despite its Methodist affiliation. Emory has a medical school, a law school, etc. so I don’t consider it subpar in any way.
Given that a measurable part of the “eliteness” of those formerly respected universities was due to the Jewish students, when they leave, the ivy league becomes more and more like the poison ivy league. Oh, and the reason that the Jews do so well is that their families have two things lacking with the left: discipline and morals. (This comes from a person raised as Catholic - back when the Pope was also Catholic.)
The Ivies and many of the other supposedly “elite” schools have been coasting for years on their historic prestige while actively abandoning the intellectual disciplines and integrity — the commitment to excellence and the pursuit of truth — that made them great in the first place. They have become academic apostates.
The rationalization is that they are doing this for “social justice;” they conceive of themselves as allocating prestige and rubber stamping credentials that have long been considered gateways to elite careers. This is a fraud against their students, future employers, and down the road, future customers and clients who are now discovering that the Ivy League degree is no longer a symbol of excellence.
By all means, parents should abandon the frauds and actively seek out schools that still maintain standards. They’re getting harder and harder to find, and the Borg is working hard to enforce conformity, but this is still how the counterculture must be built.
I think one premise of this article is flawed. The days of donating to get preferential treatment are over. The DEI/HR crowd have taken over admissions offices.
I know someone who graduated from a prestigious private University and donated A LOT over the years - like buildings have his name on them. Both of his straight A, high ACT scoring kids were denied.
At Georgia Tech (public) I know a few young people that have been perfect students with nearly perfect ACT/ACT scores that were denied - all with alumni parents that donated.
It’s almost like the admissions crowd is punishing generational success in academics.
it is not just them. everybody we know or meet has written these terrorist nest schools out of their estate distribution plans.
to HELL with Fakestinian terrorist staging camps in USA!
there are plenty of very good colleges that do not recruit or tolerate such krap — they stick a lot more to helping their students learn, get a proper education
Now end the preference for Ivy Leaguers for the federal bench and society will be improved by common sense instead of snobbery.
The media, schools, and political organizations are afraid that terror will be directed toward them.
IMHO.
The Ivy Leagues time in the sun is rapidly coming to and end.
Tax endowments.
Jews were discriminated against in college admissions for a long time.
From Wikipedia on Jewish Quota:
According to historian David Oshinsky, writing about Jonas Salk, “Most of the surrounding medical schools (Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had rigid quotas in place. In 1935 Yale accepted 76 applicants from a pool of 501. About 200 of those applicants were Jewish and only five got in.” He notes that Dean Milton Winternitz’s instructions were remarkably precise: “Never admit more than five Jews, and take no blacks at all.”
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Then Jews supported the Dems who pushed quotas for more black applicants to be accepted due to their race.
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The many anti-semitic surges from students in rallies and marches and incidents of Jewish students taking down anything in their dorm rooms that shows they are Jewish now cause Jewish parents to change their minds.
80% of them were rooting for the wrong side politically and should feel remorse for that.
“Jewish families’ biggest concern is really about how the administrations didn’t react to protect all of their students,” Rim told The Post.
Money from private Jewish families cannot compete with state funds from middle-eastern Mohammedan countries. So the "elite" universities know on which side their bread is buttered.
But how will they network to get top jobs in the Washington bureaucracy and New York investment banking establishments?
I have a senior, he does not plan to apply to any Ivy schools even though he is well qualified. Will save me a lot of coin.