<p>Does being Jewish help at all in the application process when applying to jesuit, catholic schools, etc?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>Probably, unless it's Georgetown.</p>
<p>i was thinking like pepperdine, boston college, u of san diego?
can anyone comment on any of those refering to a jewish applicant and if it helps in any way?</p>
<p>thanks bump</p>
<p>It could help if you play it up in your essays as a large part of your life. Colleges like passion and diversity - writing an essay about your Jewish faith would explore both. If you mention temple/synogogue activites on your resume too, all the better.</p>
<p>That said, if you barely mention it on your application, and simply check the little box, it probably won't mean as much.</p>
<p>But my last post is speaking just in general. Of the particular schools you're looking at, USD might be your best bet it terms of Jew-friendly admissions.</p>
<p>BC, for example, lists religious affiliation as one of it's most important admissions criteria. I think that means that they heavily prefer Catholics (or at least Christians). Same with Pepperdine.</p>
<p>Out of BC, Pepperdine, and USD, I would say that USD may be most open to it. Pepperdine would be tough seeming they're a strict Christian school.</p>
<p>BC has a lot of Jewish students; I don't think it's a help or a hindrance.</p>
<p>Pepperdine (or, at least its law school, which I know better than its undergrad college) has plenty of Jewish students too. People apply where they think they can get in and stand to be.</p>
<p>do you think it would be smart for pepperdine for example, 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.</p>
<p>Anything that you can honestly say about a college that is a reason for you to go there should help. A lot of applicants neglect the issue of "fit" completely.</p>
<p>By the way, Pepperdine is not Catholic. It is Protestant Christian, but I am not sure of the details. Look at Notre Dame. It may help there- people do not like the location much, so there may be less diversity due to that.</p>
<p>I'm just curious--if your religion is important to you, why would you go out of your way to choose schools that are specifically Catholic/Christian?</p>
<p>I can't speak for the OP, but I know that lots of non-Christians are drawn to Jesuit schools because of their strong, liberal academics and community-oriented approached.</p>
<p>(Granted, these particular three don't really fit the mold).</p>
<p>I'm a Jew and Georgetown is my number one. I don't think it's a hook exactly, but its something that might make you different from other applicants. Not that Georgetown has a lack of Jews.</p>