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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]At Yale, jews represent 28% of the student body, asians represent 21%. Jews represent 2% of the US population, asians represent 5.6% So jews are represented 14x the expected rates while asians are represented under 4x the expected rate.[/quote]

How do you know this? How do you know Jews aren't 10x or 14x more likely to apply to Yale than gentile peers?

Are you alleging there's a conspiracy to admit more Jews? How would an entire university go about doing that without that collusion eventually leaking and leading to a huge whistle blower lawsuit? How does admissions know a student is Jewish?

Why did this outgoing talented Jewish student get rejected from every top 20 university?

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12CDy0Xf9Ss[/youtube][/quote]

Seriously? She says herself that her ECs involved scooping ice cream and her SATs were low. A WASP kid with similar credentials wouldn’t get into an elite school either.

This is 4-5 years old, btw. It came out about the time my kid got into a top 5 college. My kid scooped ice cream for a year—and also had state and national level awards in an EC and also spent a summer working in the field that was her intended major.

She’s right that the admissions process is out of control. But contrary to what she says, admissions officers are hip to the kids that spend 10 minutes “bonding” with poor Africans, and that’s not what tips admissions decisions. [/quote]

Here’s her WSJ piece (she got an op-ed with them because her sister was in their staff). Note she laughs at the LGBT and Native American kids who were applying with her. She admits her qualifications were lacking... and blames her parents for not pushing her harder. PP’s anti-Semitism slant just goes to show that some see anti-Semitism under every rock. [/quote]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324000704578390340064578654[/quote]

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