<p>I'm Jewish and I applied to one Catholic college and one Christian college. On both of their applications, they asked what religion I am. I put down Judaism. Do you think it will help me? </p>
<p>The schools were Loyola Marymount and Chapman University in CA if anyone is curious.</p>
<p>no
try putting something more intresting
like bahai</p>
<p>I want a serious answer please.</p>
<p>No. Usually religion doesn’t affect admission.</p>
<p>i was completely serious
i’m jewish and it won’t help me at all
it might actually hurt me because there are so many in top schools
colleges want diversity
if you are of some rare religion, it will help, but not if you are christian muslim or jewish</p>
<p>if you saw any difference between jewish, cristian or muslim while they were walking on a street, that would make sense but there is no diversity at all, we all walk same…</p>
<p>nope. not at all.</p>
<p>@FURKANK
i understand, but colleges really want to stress their diversity, whether its real or not
if you visit college campuses they will have statistics about how they have many different races, religions, people from different countries etc…
that’s why if you’re a black hindu from wisconsin its really easy to get in to harvard and if you’re a white jew from massachusets its really hard because they don’t want everyone’s backgrounds to be the same</p>
<p>Actually, I would categorize Jewish people as a majority and simply say that the main problem is indeed their population which makes the selection highly competitive for them. We can not really expect Harvard to accept many Jewish people from Massachusetts. If they admitted Jewish from all over the USA, Harvard would be a huqe hebrew community. For example, even if you are a jewish from Massachusetts, it is very tough for you to get into Berkeley but a jewish from Ca would easily get into that school. Where we live is also another thing that obviously matters. </p>
<p>As christians or other religious groups challenge each other, you have to beat the whole Jewish community but I admit that this is not that easy to do, on the other hand, I guess that religions or culture really doesn’t matter or just stay on the surface even though colleges call these differences as a part of the diversity, moreover, I believe that this diversity sometimes is just symbolic. What I mean by saying symbolic is that this diversity may be a way to eliminate some conflicting situations such as racism. For instance, there are many black people but only few of them may get into top colleges such as MIT and that’s not because their stats are lower, but also colleges really try to keep some balance between black and white people. Moreover, Jewish and Christian people(white ones) still has the big partition. That’s why I said that this diversity thing is not really a criteria. Being a jewish, a christian, a black or a magician may not give you any advantages or disadvantages. All we have to do it to study : ) No need worries :)</p>
<p>^ My god, edit your posts. A person is a Jew, not a Jewish. </p>
<p>And I can see how our population of 12 million world wide as being a majority in a world of 7 billion. It’s so clear to me. Are we prominent in the world of academia? Yes, but us Jews sure as hell not a majority. We never are.</p>
<p>Diversity is more than just the color of one’s skin; it can be ideology, religion, sexual orientation, residence, background, language, etc.</p>
<p>As to the OP, being Jewish and getting involved in higher education has always come with it’s disadvantages and advantages; colleges used to have Jewish quotas, the SATs were developed to hinder Jews from gaining higher education, etc. Does your being Jewish give you an advantage or a disadvantage at Christian colleges? No idea. It can really go either way. As an advantage, yes, you would bring diversity to the campus. But a disadvantage is that some Christian colleges want to keep their campuses just that: Christian, and usually of their particular sect.</p>
<p>According to its common data set, Loyola doesn’t consider religion in the application decision. </p>
<p>I hightly doubt simply checking the Jewish box makes a difference to anybody one way or another. If you’ve indicated your religion is important to you via your essay or ECs then it might make a difference. Sounds like any “spirituality” is a plus at Chapman.</p>
<p>@ lilygraces</p>
<p>I sometimes make that kind of mistakes. English is not my native language.</p>
<p>Then, teach me how to use ‘Jewish’ in a sentence?</p>
<p>many schools are looking to have a more diverse student population…depending on the school,if they traditionally don’t have many from certain group that could include Jewish students—Washington and Lee University is one of those schools</p>
<p>Furkank – Sorry.</p>
<p>One person is a Jew. Two people are Jews. But all three are Jewish.</p>
<p>Jew is a noun.
Jewish is an adjective.</p>
<p>gotcha </p>
<p>thanks lily</p>