desert dude
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"White privilege".
http://www.ibtimes.com/why-racial-quotas-university-admissions-are-unfair-280875
Elite US universities, however, are one of the few intuitions brazen enough to enforce this kind of institutionalized prejudice – and they have a long history of doing so.
Early in the 20th century, they conspired to keep the Jews out.
It all started when universities like Harvard began to use college entrance exams as criteria to weed out academically inferior students. An unintended consequence of this was a surge in Jewish enrollment – to as high as 20 percent at Harvard.
To stop this rise in the Jewish student enrollment, universities devised “character” considerations like one’s mother’s maiden name and changes to one’s family name*.
Based on these “character” considerations, they tried to identify and keep out Jews.
At Harvard, applicants who were conclusively Jewish was labeled “j1, those who were probably Jewish “j2,” and those who were possibly Jewish “j3,” according to Professor Jonathan Zimmerman of NYU.
Today, these prejudicial “character” considerations remain in place – but in a different form.
Their main purpose isn’t to keep Asians out (an Asian quota can be easily enforced by identifying Asian-sounding family names and by self-identification on the application).
Instead, they’re mostly used to benefit the elites at the expense of lower-middle class whites.
Lower-middle class whites don’t get any special considerations. Moreover, most of them can’t afford fancy piano or tennis lessons, so their children can’t win many awards in these extracurricular activities. Elite universities then label these children as not having a “well-rounded character.
Meanwhile, these types of lessons are the norm for privileged children.
http://www.ibtimes.com/why-racial-quotas-university-admissions-are-unfair-280875
Elite US universities, however, are one of the few intuitions brazen enough to enforce this kind of institutionalized prejudice – and they have a long history of doing so.
Early in the 20th century, they conspired to keep the Jews out.
It all started when universities like Harvard began to use college entrance exams as criteria to weed out academically inferior students. An unintended consequence of this was a surge in Jewish enrollment – to as high as 20 percent at Harvard.
To stop this rise in the Jewish student enrollment, universities devised “character” considerations like one’s mother’s maiden name and changes to one’s family name*.
Based on these “character” considerations, they tried to identify and keep out Jews.
At Harvard, applicants who were conclusively Jewish was labeled “j1, those who were probably Jewish “j2,” and those who were possibly Jewish “j3,” according to Professor Jonathan Zimmerman of NYU.
Today, these prejudicial “character” considerations remain in place – but in a different form.
Their main purpose isn’t to keep Asians out (an Asian quota can be easily enforced by identifying Asian-sounding family names and by self-identification on the application).
Instead, they’re mostly used to benefit the elites at the expense of lower-middle class whites.
Lower-middle class whites don’t get any special considerations. Moreover, most of them can’t afford fancy piano or tennis lessons, so their children can’t win many awards in these extracurricular activities. Elite universities then label these children as not having a “well-rounded character.
Meanwhile, these types of lessons are the norm for privileged children.
