NYC Moms/Dads: Is It Possible to Get Into HYP From NYC Without a Hook?

lskinner
Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:17:31 +0000

The high schools of New York City, from which, when they were largely Jewish, suspiciously few students of high achievement gained admission, were now replaced by the high schools of the New York suburbs to which Jews had moved, Great Neck and Scarsdale and so on.

These schools now discovered that it was hard for their best students to gain admission to Harvard. It was in 1969 or 1970 that a group of Jewish faculty members met with Harvard’s director of admissions to ask why this was so. Well, he told us, **there is this donut around New York that produces so many good students that they would dominate the college if admissions were to be made on the basis of academic merit, without regard to geographical and sociological diversity./b



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