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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.[/quote]

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic[/quote]

I get statistics perfectly well. That it's more *unusual* to have a 2/3 Jewish school than an 80% Catholic school in a country that 2% Jewish and 25% Catholic is undoubtedly true. That the Jewish school has a *diversity* problem but the Catholic school does not implies that Jews are inherently undiverse, but Catholics are not. [/quote]

So, you get stats but you choose to ignore them.

That makes you, what, a willful moron?[/quote]

You seem to either not understand that 80% is greater than 66%, or, in the alternative, what the word "diversity" means. And I'm the moron?[/quote]

DP: But wouldn't the actual difference be that Georgetown specifically says that it is a Catholic school, such that the guides would need to point out that you will find a lot of Catholics there?[/quote]

I was expecting the guides to point out, that "as a Catholic school, the students are, not surprisingly overwhelmingly Catholic." That would in fact be a difference from Brandeis, which is "Jewish-sponsored," but not Jewish. But nope. Not a peep of acknowledgement that Georgetown being both overwhelmingly Catholic and dominated by kids from Catholic prep schools. Which is why I got the sense that the writers (some of whom were Jewish) believed that there is something about a school having mostly Jewish students that automatically excludes it from the elite. (Not to mention that schools with more like a third Jewish students at the time, like Tulane and Wash U, were disparagingly referred to as "Jewlane" and "Wash. Jew.")[/quote]

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