What will happen to Columbia admission this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It says that it will report stats of admits and rejects, along with demographic information, to the federal government.

The people behind all this are trying to get to 30-40% Jewish students. This is the goal according to Bill Ackman particularly at UPenn and Columbia. In the 60’s both were close to 40% with a large ultra orthodox presence. Columbia is now around 22%.

So it was a big drop and naturally DEI and affirmative action are to blame. Columbia can easily reach 30-35% by just quietlyincreasing legacy preferences to grandparents. As long as there is progress in this the pressure on Columbia by these activists will disappear.

Omg you are incredibly stupid

Orthodox do not educate their children past 8 th grade particularly girls.

Then who is being educated in Yeshiva University which has several joint programs with Columbia?

Look who is stupid now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It says that it will report stats of admits and rejects, along with demographic information, to the federal government.

The people behind all this are trying to get to 30-40% Jewish students. This is the goal according to Bill Ackman particularly at UPenn and Columbia. In the 60’s both were close to 40% with a large ultra orthodox presence. Columbia is now around 22%.

So it was a big drop and naturally DEI and affirmative action are to blame. Columbia can easily reach 30-35% by just quietlyincreasing legacy preferences to grandparents. As long as there is progress in this the pressure on Columbia by these activists will disappear.

Omg you are incredibly stupid

Orthodox do not educate their children past 8 th grade particularly girls.

Then who is being educated in Yeshiva University which has several joint programs with Columbia?

Look who is stupid now.

PP. actually, this may be the reason for Jews seeming to be over represented at Columbia - they count people in joint programs with YU and JTS. But for most of them the Columbia part resides in the school of general studies, so it’s not like they ever competed for admission with an average Columbia undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It says that it will report stats of admits and rejects, along with demographic information, to the federal government.

The people behind all this are trying to get to 30-40% Jewish students. This is the goal according to Bill Ackman particularly at UPenn and Columbia. In the 60’s both were close to 40% with a large ultra orthodox presence. Columbia is now around 22%.

So it was a big drop and naturally DEI and affirmative action are to blame. Columbia can easily reach 30-35% by just quietlyincreasing legacy preferences to grandparents. As long as there is progress in this the pressure on Columbia by these activists will disappear.

^^^this person has no clue what DEI or affirmative action are or how they operate. So disregard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have to say that I'm not an alarmist, usually shrug at a lot of the stuff DCUM gets worked up about. And I'm in academia.

And I would discourage my kid from applying to Columbia this year. It's scary what's going on there in terms of academic freedom. You are going to have so many disgruntled faculty. I don't have a kid applying this year, but if I did, I'd take it off any list.

Like there was academic freedom there pre-Trump!

How did you know either way? Did you attend Columbia? Were you an AO there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anecdotal, but they are aggressively marketing to my junior when siblings with similar stats didn't receive anything.

Your junior is applying after the demographic crash. Their experience will probably be different than the siblings as a result.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It says that it will report stats of admits and rejects, along with demographic information, to the federal government.

Do you think that any of this matters to students or their families? They will still have many applicants bc they are an Ivy League school in NYC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It says that it will report stats of admits and rejects, along with demographic information, to the federal government.

The people behind all this are trying to get to 30-40% Jewish students. This is the goal according to Bill Ackman particularly at UPenn and Columbia. In the 60’s both were close to 40% with a large ultra orthodox presence. Columbia is now around 22%.

So it was a big drop and naturally DEI and affirmative action are to blame. Columbia can easily reach 30-35% by just quietlyincreasing legacy preferences to grandparents. As long as there is progress in this the pressure on Columbia by these activists will disappear.

Omg you are incredibly stupid

Orthodox do not educate their children past 8 th grade particularly girls.

You will have to explain this to my Orthodox BFF, who is putting her sixth child (four of them daughters) through high school right now.

The bigotry stinks.

[Anonymous]

I would never pay a dollar to an institution that capitulated to what the Trump administration is doing right now. I have accepted that this means that our kids will attend college outside the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It says that it will report stats of admits and rejects, along with demographic information, to the federal government.

The people behind all this are trying to get to 30-40% Jewish students. This is the goal according to Bill Ackman particularly at UPenn and Columbia. In the 60’s both were close to 40% with a large ultra orthodox presence. Columbia is now around 22%.

So it was a big drop and naturally DEI and affirmative action are to blame. Columbia can easily reach 30-35% by just quietlyincreasing legacy preferences to grandparents. As long as there is progress in this the pressure on Columbia by these activists will disappear.

Ackman is a nutcase. And should be treated as such.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It says that it will report stats of admits and rejects, along with demographic information, to the federal government.

The people behind all this are trying to get to 30-40% Jewish students. This is the goal according to Bill Ackman particularly at UPenn and Columbia. In the 60’s both were close to 40% with a large ultra orthodox presence. Columbia is now around 22%.

So it was a big drop and naturally DEI and affirmative action are to blame. Columbia can easily reach 30-35% by just quietlyincreasing legacy preferences to grandparents. As long as there is progress in this the pressure on Columbia by these activists will disappear.

Please site your source for Bill Ackman’s goal of infiltrating colleges with Jewish students.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never pay a dollar to an institution that capitulated to what the Trump administration is doing right now. I have accepted that this means that our kids will attend college outside the US.

As if you could get in haha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It says that it will report stats of admits and rejects, along with demographic information, to the federal government.

The people behind all this are trying to get to 30-40% Jewish students. This is the goal according to Bill Ackman particularly at UPenn and Columbia. In the 60’s both were close to 40% with a large ultra orthodox presence. Columbia is now around 22%.

So it was a big drop and naturally DEI and affirmative action are to blame. Columbia can easily reach 30-35% by just quietlyincreasing legacy preferences to grandparents. As long as there is progress in this the pressure on Columbia by these activists will disappear.

With less freedom to disregard grades and scores in favor of race and socio-economic status, you bet there will be an increase in Jewish, Asian, and South Asian students. Legacy has nothing to do with the most qualified students being accepted on merit.

[Anonymous]

It will mostly be Asian-American students who benefit if Columbia knocks it off with race-based admissions and enrolling so many international students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will mostly be Asian-American students who benefit if Columbia knocks it off with race-based admissions and enrolling so many international students.

Are we forgetting that much of those international students...are asian? Like at every top school across the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never pay a dollar to an institution that capitulated to what the Trump administration is doing right now. I have accepted that this means that our kids will attend college outside the US.

As if you could get in haha

I am not sure whether this is a ref to getting in to Brown (which I did) or about institutions outside the US (have not, but feel confident that I could).

I went to a different school in the US, which has also capitulated and which I also will not pay another dime to.

I cannot imagine how anyone who got real intellectual value out of college could want their kid to spend those four same years of their lives at an institution where Trump admin officials are reading every student eval. Let alone pay for it!

The reputational stain on these institutions, once it is fully understood, will last for decades.