Admissions: An Audio History You Didn't Know About (Yale

Thursday, October 06, 2022

In three earlier postings - in advance of the Supreme Court's hearing of the Harvard and University of North Carolina admissions cases - we posted audios about the history of college admissions standards in the twentieth century, especially at Columbia, Princeton, and Dartmouth. Those Gatecrashers audios dealt with actual and de facto quotas on Jewish students as more of the sons of immigrants applied to Ivy League schools.* Now we come to Yale.

From the Gatecrashers description: It’s accepted as gospel—or at least reliable urban legend—that at nearly every Ivy League school in the mid-20th century, there were limits on the number of Jews admitted each year. The Jewish population, it was said, was capped at 10 percent of the student body. But was that true?

* http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/09/admissions-history-you-didnt-knowabout.html; http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/09/admissions-audio-historyyou-didnt-know.html; http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/09/admissionsaudio-history-you-didnt-know_30.html.

To hear the text above followed by the Yale story (with extraneous announcements removed), click on the link below:

https://ia801402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/yale%20combined.mp3