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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You have some serious mental issues. Talk to a pro, not to dcum.
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It's been decades since I said, "I know you are but what am I," but when talking to someone who acts like a six-year-old, that seems like the proper response, so: I know you are, but what am I?[/quote]

You are obviosly the Pope, who, having been touched by the Obamas' decision to send their kids to GDS, decided to do the same.

Be well, Pope. And remember to take your meds.[/quote]

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