<p>Does being Jewish help at all in the application process when applying to jesuit, catholic schools, etc?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>They can't judge you based on your religion. It's probably illegal, at the very least it's socially unacceptable. Why do you think Penn is 30% Jewish? Religious AA doesn't exist. Lucky for us Jewish applicants.</p>
<p>If you are Jewish why are you applying to a Catholic/Christian school?</p>
<p>In terms of other schools, I don't believe it helps at all. I haven't seen any college apps that ask for your religion.</p>
<p>It doesn't help at any school I can think of.</p>
<p>How would they know you're Jewish unless you tell them? And, as others have mentioned, why are you applying to Christian schools?</p>
<p>I'm Jewish and I am being recruited by Catholic schools as if I'm the Pope himself. It definately won't hurt you, most schools are looking to diversify. They seem to be very generous with the free applications, so I've applied to see what kind of scholarship they can give me. Only then will I really consider even attending one. Most Catholic schools are supposedly as religous as you want them to be, meaning if you don't want any religion, it's as if you go to a public school.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt, though not a Catholic school was notoriously recruiting Jews in order to diversify.</p>
<p>Judging by your username, Canes12, you must be applying to University of Miami, though it is not a religious school. FYI, being Jewish is one of the LEAST important minorities that school will consider. South Florida is second to New York in terms of its Jewish population. Miami recruits Jews easily. (The Chicago area comes after south Florida in this statistic.)</p>
<p>Just want to repeat this; some posts in this thread are misleading:</p>
<p>Schools DO NOT CARE about religious diversity. They aren't aloud to. They are blind to an applicant's religion. </p>
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And, as others have mentioned, why are you applying to Christian schools?
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Some not-very-religious Jews find that some Chrisitian schools are good fits for other reasons besides religion.</p>
<p>"Schools DO NOT CARE about religious diversity. They aren't aloud to. They are blind to an applicant's religion."</p>
<p>Not true. Like I said, Vanderbilt did this. These seem like trustworthy sources.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/939%5B/url%5D">http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/939</a>
<a href="http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=233%5B/url%5D">http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=233</a>
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB102003890421804360.html%5B/url%5D">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB102003890421804360.html</a>
<a href="http://atlanta.jewish.com/archives/2002/101802cs.htm%5B/url%5D">http://atlanta.jewish.com/archives/2002/101802cs.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/story/105/story_10585_1.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.beliefnet.com/story/105/story_10585_1.html</a></p>
<p>That should be enough to prove my point.</p>
<p>do you think it would be smart to in my "do you have anything else you would like to share with us box" write about how i am jewish and wanting very much to explore another religion?</p>
<p>btw i honestly am looking foward to that aspect of these schools. (christian, catholic, etc)</p>
<p>Notthatgood, those articles are all about Vandebilt, which is probably the only exception.</p>
<p>bump to my question above please.</p>
<p>Canes, If I were you, I wouldn't say that I'm Jewish necesarily but definitely that I'm looking to explore new religions. You could go either way, though.</p>