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kwu · 02-19-2009, 11:32 PM

The stereotype of brilliant Jews actually has its founding in the discrimination they faced in their attempt to gain admission to our nation's Ivy League colleges.

Since those institutions had quotas against peoples of the Jewish faith, any Jew who attended an Ivy League college was thought of as simply brilliant: after all, how could he have been admitted despite the quota if he weren't brilliant?

And thus, the stereotype spread and now it is demystified!

My tuition-free independent high school in NYC sent 22 percent of its class to the Ivy League last year (would have been much higher if so many people hadn't turned down Cornell), and 13 percent of its class to HYPSM. I love my parents, neither of whom went to college, for all the gifts and privileges I've received in life, and I do not believe in stereotypes.

02-19-2009, 11:32 PM	#71
kwu Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NYC, MA Posts: 3,352	The stereotype of brilliant Jews actually has its founding in the discrimination they faced in their attempt to gain admission to our nation's Ivy League colleges. Since those institutions had quotas against peoples of the Jewish faith, any Jew who attended an Ivy League college was thought of as simply brilliant: after all, how could he have been admitted despite the quota if he weren't brilliant? And thus, the stereotype spread and now it is demystified! My tuition-free independent high school in NYC sent 22 percent of its class to the Ivy League last year (would have been much higher if so many people hadn't turned down Cornell), and 13 percent of its class to HYPSM. I love my parents, neither of whom went to college, for all the gifts and privileges I've received in life, and I do not believe in stereotypes.
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