<p>And Jewish percentages at popular schools.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link...that is really interesting data.
I was surprised to see that 30% of Yale students are Jewish.</p>
<p>^^I hesitated to comment on that particular stat, but I just visited my D at Y and asked her if she'd met anyone she would be interested in dating. She said that a really high percentage of guys were looking for a Jewish girl, or <em>sigh</em> another guy.</p>
<p>Princeton & Dartmouth, the two most conservative Ivies, are not among the top 35 colleges & universities for Jewish students even though the other 6 Ivies are among the top 15 schools they choose.
A few weeks ago Presidential candidate Ralph Nadar decried the poor turnout for his speech at Dartmouth College was due to the overwhelming conservatism of the studentbody. Although all of the students that I know at Dartmouth College are conservative (as am I on most issues), conservative is a relative term used here in comparison to other Ivy League & Northeastern schools, although Princeton truly qualifies as a conservative leaning school. Brown, Columbia & Yale are at the opposite end of the spectrum from Dartmouth & Princeton.</p>
<p>38% at Northwestern? That's very surprising to me.</p>
<p>The Top 20 Colleges & Universities by percentage of Jewish students according to Hillel estimates (which are available to all as I am not Jewish but use Hillel data for students):</p>
<p>Yeshiva 94%
Brandeis 62%
Barnard 44%
SUNY Oneonta 36%
Emory 34%
Pratt Institute 32%
Univ. of Hartford 32%
George Washington Univ. (GWU) 32%
Tufts 32%
Muhlenberg 31%
Penn 31%
Harvard 30%
Reed 30%
CUNY Brooklyn 30%
Goucher 30%
SUNY Binghamton 30%
Suny Albany 29%
Sarah Lawrence 29%
Hampshire 28%
Wesleyan 27%</p>
<p>Apparently my list is a year old.</p>
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<p>In other words, he's blaming the kids at Dartmouth for the poor turnout, instead of -- dare I say it -- his own message?</p>
<p>Top 30 private schools by number of Jewish students according to Hillel:</p>
<p>NYU
Boston University
Cornell
Penn
Yeshiva
GWU
Syracuse
Emory
Columbia
Harvard
Tulane
Brandeis
Northwestern
WashUStL
USC
Univ. of Miami
Brown
Tufts
Univ. of Hartford
Hofstra
LIU
Yale
American Univ.
Barnard College
Northeastern
Pratt
Vanderbilt
Oberlin
Univ. of Denver
Univ. of Rochester</p>
<p>This list is now a year old.</p>
<p>RE: Post #5: That would be quite a jump from last year's 23% (1,800 students) to 38% (3,000 students) and would require that over half of the incoming freshmen were of the Jewish faith/culture. Maybe the 3,000 figure includes graduate students in which case it would be about 19% (3,000 out of 16,000 students and not just the 8,000 undergraduates).
Just spoke to some students at Northwestern and they think that the 38% figure is incorrect & both are heavily involved in student gov't & other student social organizations. They thought that last year's figure of 23% was more reasonable of an estimate. But I don't really know.</p>
<p>Most of the students I met here at Princeton are overwhelmingly liberal. We are definitely not conservative leaning here. When I was watching the Palin/Biden debate the crowd was obviously in favor of Biden. There is a vocal conservative minority here which makes the campus dialogue more interesting than other campus in my opinion, but we are far from being the opposite spectrum of Yale and Brown. </p>
<p>I am surprised that we don't have as many Jewish students here as other schools because a lot of my friends are Jewish. Maybe, it's because I eat at the Center for Jewish Life so often that I think there are more Jewish students here.</p>
<p>Perception can indeed change. When I went to Harvard it seemed like it was over 50% Jewish because most of my friends were Jewish. Apparently a side effect of living in the house with most of the musicians. Amusingly I'd never even seen a bagel before I went to college.</p>
<p>"Just spoke to some students at Northwestern and they think that the 38% figure is incorrect"</p>
<p>Yeah, it seemed very weird to me that Northwestern would be higher than Penn. I wonder how they're measuring this.</p>
<p>Very interesting. My son has not considered checking the "jewish" box on his applications as we are an inter-faith, and not particularly observant family.</p>
<p>Woah, since when did Northwestern University become 38% Jewish?? I could have sworn the school was 15-20% Jewish when I graduated.</p>
<p>University of Michigan seems to be a popular public school destination for Jewish students too.</p>
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<li>University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
18.3% Jewish (4500 students)</li>
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<p>I wonder are these statistics accurate? I'm still surprised by the Northwestern results.</p>
<p>Those figures are not likely to be accurate because universities do not require their students to report their religion.</p>
<p>How indeed are these data being gathered? There is optional self-identification by religion on the PSAT/NMSQT demographic questionnaire, so that colleges can target their recruiting, but I have not seen any college application that has a separate category of "Jewish" for student self-identification, so who is gathering these data, and how? </p>
<p>Links to specific forms would be much appreciated, if those forms live on the Web.</p>
<p>These figures are guesstimates generated by an overly zealous Hillel organization. Interesting how the figure for Northwestern was a perfect 1,800 students & is now a perfect 3,000 students. This figure is probably not accurate unless it incudes the 8,000 graduate students which would make Northwestern 18.75% Jewish. A more reasonable estimate might be 25% of the undergraduate population is Jewish--after all, my guess is as good as theirs. Northwestern University also has a significant number of Asian students. NU is definitely an academically oriented school with some of the brightest & most motivated students in the country. My son came from one of the top 3 prep schools in the world when judged by academics & college placement, and he is shocked by the brilliance of Northwestern University undergraduate students--especially the sophomores & freshmen.</p>
<p>We're Jewish, and one thing my son specifically pointed out to me when I visited him at the University of Chicago was how (relatively) few Jewish students there are there, compared to some of the Ivy League schools to which the U of Chicago is generally considered roughly equivalent (like Yale, Penn, and Columbia) -- about 15%, is his educated guess from the people he's met and from looking at other students' names. Of 17 first year students in his "house," only 2 others are Jewish, I believe. It feels a lot stranger to him, though, to be among so many Midwesterners, than it does to be among so many non-Jewish students. His high school in the suburbs of Northern New Jersey was only about 10% Jewish, but everyone was pretty much part of the same Northeast/mid-Atlantic, Bosnywash culture.</p>
<p>He's also very impressed by how smart everyone is, although he feels that he's better-prepared than some for working as hard as one has to, and for the high expectations with respect to class participation, and with respect to the study skills required. (His school was really quite rigorous, especially for a public school.) Of course, he hasn't gotten any grades yet -- he just turned in his first two papers -- so he'll have to see if his confidence is justified!</p>
<p>There are many Asian students as well, a substantial number of them from overseas.</p>
<p>When I was at Yale, in the early 1970's, about 25-30% of the students were Jewish. When my father started there, in 1936, the old 10% quota was in full force.</p>
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<p>If these figures are true and they can categorize them, what happened to diversity?</p>