Jews at Williams

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Also it’s just funny to me to think about giving a minority status label to a group of people who (let’s get real here) are a smaller population at Williams than they would be otherwise because of affirmative action policies in the admission of racial minorities.

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<p>I’m not sure I’m quite ready to buy into the idea that URMs are battling Jews for the same number of allotted places at historically Christian universities. After all, Williams would not be the first college of its kind to equate greater numbers of Jewish students with greater intellectual achievement:
[In</a> Effort to Lift Their Rankings, Colleges Recruit Jewish Students - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB102003890421804360,00.html]In”>http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB102003890421804360,00.html)</p>