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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asian is the new White in this area.  Can I say that without offending anyone?  It's no longer a minority (and I'm sure you've heard Asians are the majority race at the uber competitive Thomas Jefferson STEM magnet in Virginia).  [/quote]

Well, actually it is the "new Jew".  Jews were better qualified but actively discriminated against in the Ivies through at least the late 1950s.  For example, a friend of mine told me in the very late 1950s  there were only so many Jewish slots at Harvard Law  (in contrast, when I went there, I felt like the only WASP and there were few Asian Americans); only so many slots on the Law Review for Jews; and, after graduation, Jews knew which law firms in NYC were Jewish, and which were not and applied accordingly.  That world has completely changed.  I glanced at the NYTimes article someone posted and it talks about this anti-Jewish discrimination going back to the 1920s (when better qualified Jews started applying to the Ivies) and lasting through the 1960s. Of course there weren't many women when I went there, either.  Now women are more than 50% of the class in most law schools. [/quote]

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