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Asian-Americans, Jews and Ivy League admissions
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Degrees from the Ivy League colleges — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia
and their peers — are passports to elite positions on Wall Street and in
Washington. This month’s issue of The American Conservative carries an
important article by its publisher, Ronald K. Unz, making the case that the
Ivy League admissions process is corrupt and arbitrary, and that their
student bodies are neither the best and the brightest, nor representative of
the nation as a whole.
december-2012Unz, himself a Harvard graduate, said the admissions process at
Ivy League universities is a subjective process, based largely on
interviews supposedly to determine whether the applicant is a well-rounded
person. This system came into existence as a covert means to cap the
numbers of Jewish students without setting explicit quotas, he wrote; now it
is used to cap the numbers of Asian-Americans.
A century ago, students of the Ivy League were predominantly the sons and
the white Protestant upper class, who attended as much for social life and
sports as for academics. Unz said applicants from such backgrounds, the
children of distinguished alumni or large contributors to the college
endowment funds, still get in as a matter of course. Some provision is
made to help black and Hispanic students. The losers are Asian-Americans
and non-Jewish working-class whites.
I am uncomfortable with sweeping generalizations about broad racial,
religious and ethnic categories. Each consists of sub-groups which differ
from each other, and each group and sub-group consists of unique individuals
with a wider range of traits than the averages of the different groups.
You can’t tell anything about an individual’s intellectual attainments, or
anything else, based on their demographic characteristics. But
unfortunately, race, religion and ethnicity matter in American life and
simplifications and generalizations are necessary for understanding.
The following tables show the relative rise of Asian-American students and
the relative decline of Jewish students in high school math and science
competitions.
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f3-largeThe charts above indicate that Asian-Americans don’t get a fair
shake, based on their intellectual attainments. They indicate, more
surprisingly, that average Jewish intellectual attainment has crashed. The
percentage of Jewish high school students who win science competitions has
declined dramatically in the past couple of decades, but not the high
percentage of Jewish admissions to Ivy League universities—in sharp
contrast to admissions to California Institute of Technology (Caltech),
where enrollment seems to be based more on intellectual merit or at least on
test scores. Asian-Americans stand in the same position in American
academic life that the children of Jewish immigrants stood 75 years ago.
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The implication of the data is that the reason for large numbers of Jewish
students currently at Ivy League colleges is not that so many of them are
hard-working, intellectual super-achievers as in previous generations, but
that so many of their parents are members of the upper classes.
asians-largeThe Asian-American population is increasing, but their
enrollment in elite colleges—except for Caltech—is not. The most obvious
explanation is that there are quotas—explicit or informal—that are holding
them back.
I’m uncomfortable with Unz’s article and the information in these charts,
especially the implications concerning Jewish enrollment in Ivy League
universities versus white Christian working-class people—implications which
will be welcomed by racists and anti-Semites. But facts and logic are the
best guide to truth, not my comfort level.
Ron Unz
Ron Unz
One criticism of Unz’s article is that he counts people in different ethnic
groups based on their last names. This may not be valid, especially when
so many Americans are of mixed heritage. My name is Phil Ebersole.
During my lifetime, many people have made wrong assumptions about my race,
religion and ethnicity, based on my name and appearance.
Another criticism is that Unz’s claim of declining Jewish intellectual
attainment is based on declining high school science prizes, and this doesn
’t take into account attainments in literature, philosophy and scholarship.
Maybe Jewish intellectual interests have shifted from the sciences to the
humanities. Maybe smart Jewish students all flock to Harvard, Yale and
Princeton and smart Asian-American students flock to Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) and Caltech.
I think both these criticisms have merit, but do not invalidate Unz’s
conclusions. I’ll be interested to see more commentary on his article. I
’m surprised there has been so little criticism so far. I will have more
to say in my next post.
Double click on the charts to enlarge them.
Click on The Myth of American Meritocracy for Ron Unz’s full article.
All the charts above are from this article.
Click on Paying Tuition to a Gigantic Hedge Fund for a sidebar by Ron Unz
claiming that Harvard University is more of an investment fund than an
educational institution.
Click on Quantitative Sources and Methods for Ron Unz’s documentation of
his claims.
For rebuttal, click on Meritocracy, Jews and the Liberal Arts by Samuel
Goldman.
For more comment, click on The Myth of Affirmative Action by Dan McCarthy.
Click on Harvard as Hedge Fund: Harvard’s Reply for Harvard’s rebuttal and
Ron Unz’s additional comment.
For more rebuttal, click on The claim that Harvard admissions discriminate
in favor of Jews? I don’t see it by Andrew Gelman. [Added 2/16/13]
Ron Unz was born in 1961 and grew up in California. He earned a bachelor of
science degree in physics from Harvard and studied advanced physics at
Stanford University but didn’t get a doctoral degree. He started a
software company called Wall Street Analytics which was bought by Moody’s
Investors Service in 2006. He was active in California politics, and
founded English for the Children, an organization opposed to bilingual
education. He became publisher of The American Conservative in 2007.
Click on This Man Controls California for a 1999 profile of Ron Unz in The
New Republic
Click on Ron Unz – Writings and Perspective | Views, Opinions and Notes for
his web log.
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3 Responses to “Asian-Americans, Jews and Ivy League admissions”
Edward Says:
April 12, 2013 at 9:36 pm | Reply
“I’m uncomfortable with Unz’s article and the information in these charts
, especially the implications concerning Jewish enrollment in Ivy League
universities versus white Christian working-class people—implications which
will be welcomed by racists and anti-Semites.”
So when it is proven that whites are discriminated against by Jews at Ive
League universities, it makes you “uncomfortable”, not because whites (and
Asians) are discriminated against, but because it reflects badly upon those
who are doing the discriminating, and proves what their opponents have been
saying all along?
It is not easy to criticize those in power. Even when dispassionately
presenting incontrovertible data proving ethnocentric nepotism, it must be
couched in declarations of submission.
Michael Says:
December 1, 2013 at 11:19 am | Reply
I came to this article late, but I think I should say that Unz’s statistics
are definitely false. I personally know of more Jewish IMO participants
than the 3 percent he has listed for the 2000′s time period. And also it’s
very unlikely that the Ivy League schools are still 20-25 percent Jewish.
This was true maybe 25 years ago, but definitely not now. This is obvious to
anyone who is associated with such institutions.
asdad Says:
December 3, 2013 at 10:00 pm | Reply
the Jewish IQ of 110 is obviously inflated. It’s more like 103-105 in par
with northeast asians. | z******o
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