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Doors of Ivy League Colleges Reported Wide Open for Jewish Students
April 18, 1967
NEW YORK (Apr. 17)
Enrollment of Jewish students in the Ivy League colleges has grown vastly in
recent years, and decided steps toward opening more Ivy League doors to
Jews have been taken this year, it was revealed here today.
According to a survey of this year’s admission policies at the Ivy League
institutions, published today by The New York Times, about 40 percent of the
students at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania are now Jewish. At
Yale, Harvard and Cornell, the Jewish students are now thought to number
between 20 and 25 percent, while between 13 and 20 percent of the students
at Dartmouth, Princeton and Brown are believed to be Jewish.
This year’s admissions, according to the Times, are based on the quality of
each student and his background, rather than on geographical distribution.
H. Inslee Clark, Jr., dean of admissions at Yale was quoted as saying that
efforts are now being made by his office to enroll more students from such
outstanding public high schools in New York as Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn and
the Bronx High School of Science. Since both of these schools have very high
enrollments of Jews, that step alone was seen as tending toward the opening
of more places in Yale’s freshman class to Jews.
Referring to the high school in the Bronx, Dean Clark said: “Until three
years ago, we didn’t do any recruiting there at all, even though it’s one
of the best public schools in the country. Now we do, and we get more people
from there, and I suppose many of them are Jewish.” When asked about the
sharp rise in the enrollment of Jewish students. Dean Clark was quoted as
replying: “Is that right? I honestly hadn’t noticed. In this office, our
only concern is quality.”
SHARP RISE IN JEWISH STUDENTS ATTRIBUTED TO DISGUST WITH BIAS
In general, Ivy League admissions deans, the Times reported, acknowledged
the possibility that some classes may be dominated “by Jews, by New
Englanders or by football players.” “In some years,” Dean Clark said, “
we got to the point where something like that has happened. Well, maybe we
have to reevaluate our system. But at the moment, we get a pretty diverse
group just by seeking the very best we can get.”
Rabbi Richard J. Israel, a chaplain at Yale, said that, over the years. Yale
never had a religious quota, although the number of Jews in each class in
the 1950′s “tended to be between 103 and 109.” That estimate, he said,
was based on questionnaires filled out by all freshmen, for religious
guidance, since the original application blanks to the university include no
questions about religion.
Rabbi I.M. Levy, a chaplain at Princeton, said: “When I came here in 1948,
there were perhaps 75 or 100 Jews in the whole school. Now there are more
than 100 per class. The general atmosphere in this country brought about the
change. Americans simply became disgusted with discrimination. But that new
liberalism goes only a certain distance.”
Rabbi Levy was cited as expressing “a vague suspicion” shared with other
rabbis that there is still some unconscious anti-Semitism through such
devices as preferential treatment for the sons of alumni or by vestiges of
geographical distribution. Under the system of geographical distribution,
admissions were given more frequently to students from areas where there are
relatively few Jews, as contrasted to centers like New York, where it is
estimated that about 40 percent of the residents are Jewish.
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