<p>Brownbear</p>
<p>If you go to the [Hillel:</a> The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life](<a href=“http://www.hillel.org%5DHillel:”>http://www.hillel.org) site, you will find the percentages of Jewish students at most colleges. Here are the approximate percentages of Jewish students at some of the schools you have mentioned:</p>
<p>Tufts–31%
Penn–31%
Harvard–25%
NYU—26%</p>
<p>I don’t know where you are getting your information from, but many fine schools have a relatively large number of Jewish students and I personally don’t think that it reflects a lack of diversity at the schools.</p>
<p>Stony Brook and Brandeis both have a number of fine departments, with Stony Brook holding the edge in the sciences. Brandeis, however, is far from a one dimensional school and it is not limited to good departments in Hebrew, Judaic Studies and the Middle East, as you insinuated. Brandeis is strong in many areas, including the sciences, anthropology, and math and it is certainly a school that has strong research opportunities.</p>