UC Berkeley vs Stanford Asian Americans

muckdogs07
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:39:58 +0000

Nosering

"I was just wondering about a possible connection between the search for “manly” traits and the prominent role of athletics on college campuses that began many years ago. I admit that the answer is “probably not”!

Actually probably yes, as detailed in The Chosen by Jerome Karabel about the history of admissions at HYP. All of these schools patterned their admissions policies after the criteria for the Rhodes Scholarship as a way to place rugged men (read athletes) and men of character (read rich WASPs) ahead of Jews.

Interestingly, Karabel contends that the opaque holistic process had its genesis in the 1920s to limit Jewish enrollment, which had skyrocketed at H and Y (not as much at P, which even then had more of the country club reputation) when the admissions policies were based more on tests and had started to move away from mostly St. Grottlesex students (although students from those schools were still well represented; indeed, to show the preference for such students, according to Karabel, H used to brag to alums about how the St Grottlesex students were typically at the bottom of the class as a way to show their preference in admissions).