<p>NYU and Columbia tend to have less students from the area, in my experience, and Barnard is part of Columbia basically and check out those numbers. Of course, if you look at other places in NYC you’ll find they are more popular destinations for Jews in the area.</p>
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That’s because it’s extremely elevated. Jewish students make up 22.5% of the undergraduate population at Northwestern.</p>
<p>[Northwestern</a> University](<a href=“http://www.hillel.org/HillelApps/JLOC/Campus.aspx?AgencyId=17598]Northwestern”>http://www.hillel.org/HillelApps/JLOC/Campus.aspx?AgencyId=17598)</p>
<p>It looks like the guy from Dubai was right. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>::shrugs:: I only went on my own knowledge that the numbers are right for Brown and I have no reason to think that’s crazy, having not been to Northwestern. So I asked why he thought that, he responded basically he was guessing because it wasn’t an area he associated with being Jewish, and I responded to that by saying there are two vibrant communities near by so it doesn’t seem that crazy to me.</p>
<p>I wonder if these numbers somehow included graduate schools/professional schools some places when the reporting came in for absolute numbers and applied it to the undergrad population. That my explain the inflated percentage at Northwestern, but since the numbers seem fairly normal to my experience with the NE schools I know about, it could be a fluke of reporting in that case.</p>