<p>zooey2011, sure, it’s not an official policy, nor is legacy status. Yet somehow Ross Perot III (Ross Perot’s grandson, Ross Perot, Jr.'s son (vandy alum)) got in, I have a hunch Trip isn’t qualified on paper.</p>
<p><a href=“http://paste.lisp.org/display/12638[/url]”>http://paste.lisp.org/display/12638</a> (2002)</p>
<p>“Although other ethnic and racial groups, notably blacks and Hispanics, have been targeted by many universities, that effort has largely been to promote diversity or to increase opportunity for the economically disadvantaged. Something else is driving the quest for more Jews – about which Vanderbilt is unusually forthright. It wants them to raise its academic standing.”</p>
<p>““Yes, we’re targeting Jewish students,” Chancellor Gordon Gee told a March 17 board meeting of the Vanderbilt affiliate of Hillel”</p>
<p>“Mr. Gee, who left the presidency of Brown University for Vanderbilt two years ago, says niche marketing to Jewish students is part of his “elite strategy” to lift Vanderbilt to Ivy League status.”</p>
<p>“Vanderbilt officials say they are simply trying to lure more Jewish applicants, not to use religion as a factor in admissions. They say that bringing more highly qualified Jews into the applicant pool will naturally yield more admissions of Jewish students. “We’re about broadening the applicant pool, not about quotas,” Mr. Gee says. He says Vanderbilt is also trying to increase enrollment of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.”</p>
<p>What this all boils down to is doing the right thing for wrong reasons. It’s pathetic.</p>