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For perspective, here are the Harvard vs US demographics, sorted by most to least represented [1,2,3,4]:

    Jewish: 14.0% vs 2.6% (5.38x)
    Asian American: 25.3% vs 5.3% (4.77x)
    Native Hawaiian: 0.6% vs 0.2% (3.00x)
    Native American: 1.8% vs 0.7% (2.57x)
    African American: 14.3% vs 12.7% (1.13x)
    Hispanic or Latino: 12.2% vs 17.6% (0.69x)
    non-Jewish white: 33.0% vs 58.9% (0.56x)
[1] https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics

[2] https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat...

[3] https://features.thecrimson.com/2016/freshman-survey/lifesty...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews, upper estimate used

parent deogeo 7 years ago

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