<p>Not sure what the question is here now. How to make UR more selective? Or stronger?</p>
<p>I agree with the Jewish argument up to a point. Nobody likes to talk about this either, but there is a threshold at which the % may become a negative, at least in terms of non-Jews making a decision where percentages may seem too high. I think this happens, for instance, at Brandeis and Muhlenberg, and if you go to the Brandeis site on CC you will see the question put right out there as “Is Brandeis too Jewish for me” or something like that. The schools that do best are probably the ones with a high percentage of Jews without being overtly identified as Jewish schools.</p>
<p>For me, I look at the number of Caucasians (to see if it’s too high), but more so retention rates, 4 and 6 years grad rates, and middle 50% on SAT/ACT. If the admit is high relative to the reputation of the school I try to understand that (geography, less marketing, drifting too far out of the mainstream, or whatever).</p>