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Columbia had Jewish quotas, etc. just as the HY.
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There was an interesting thread on this at one point, and my understanding is that Columbia belatedly tried to restrict Jewish enrollment after it had reached a much more significant percentage of the student body than at the other Ivies. The larger point I was trying to make is that this gift is consistent with Columbia's history of being more ethnically and socio-economically diverse than other Ivies, and that is a history worth taking pride in.</p>
<p>(If you're interested, here is an interesting link about Jews at Yale, where in the 1920s they were afraid that without quotas they would end up like Columbia, with a student body that was about half Jewish:<a href="http://www.asianam.org/yale's_quotas_against_jews.htm">http://www.asianam.org/yale's_quotas_against_jews.htm</a>)</p>