<p>From
[Should</a> Colleges Have Quotas for Asian Americans? (washingtonpost.com)](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26499-2004Oct12.html]Should”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26499-2004Oct12.html)</p>
<p>"But there is one part of his argument, a reference to a sad era in American history, that is hard to ignore. Many selective colleges before World War II had quotas on Jews. They turned down many brilliant applicants in favor of non-Jewish prep school students with lesser records. They didn’t call this striving for diversity, but it was a perverse form of affirmative action, and it left a bitter taste for decades. </p>
<p>Chin calculates that with those quotas gone, about a third of Harvard undergraduates are Jews, who make up about 3 percent of the U.S. population. About 17 percent of Harvard undergraduates are Asians, who make up about 4 percent of the population. Since the percentage of Asian Americans at schools of comparable quality that do not practice affirmative action are much higher – 40 percent at Berkeley, 50 percent at selective New York high schools such as Stuyvesant – Chin says the Asian American percentage at Harvard and other Ivies would go up significantly if the rules were changed."</p>
<p>I think American elite colleges gave the jews a break because of what happened to them during the Holocaust and because they are ambitious gold-diggers. But as of today they should pay more attention to Asians because China alone bears the majority of America’s debt. The private colleges not funded by the government obviously do not have a clue.</p>