<p>Being Jewish help you get into Yale? Jews are not the only people to suffer. They persecuted Christians.
Being African help you get into Yale? Africans are not the only people to suffer. They sacrificed people accused of witchcraft. </p>
<p>This is what a TA said, except I have worked it up. The world is a hard place to live, and Yale is a hard place to get into.</p>
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<p>Except that we’re all living in the hard place that is the world and yet, most of us will not get into Yale.</p>
<p>For an Ivy, would you rather have the admissions office know you’re a Jew or an conservative, pro-life, evangelical Christian?</p>
<p>To the OP, I don’t think it matters if you’re Jewish.</p>
<p>I have to object: the line “they persecuted Christians” … is that meant about Jews? If you think that, pull your dumb head out of your butt.</p>
<p>I certainly hope that bulldog did not mean that. Otherwise, we have not made any progress by having this discussion.</p>
<p>Jews did persecute Christians at some low level for a short period just after Christianity split from Judaism, but as far as I know this wasn’t at all severe or excessively violent, which cannot be said about the historical persecution of the Jews. However valid your comment may be, bluewhitebulldog, it was not written very tactfully.</p>
<p>I think the OP got more than they asked for.</p>