Spritzler checked. Admissions are not just down at Harvard?
Although up to 10% of the students at the Ivys are Jewish, it is unclear if the recent wave of campus anti-Semitism is to blame for the falling applications?
Dartmouth received the biggest drop and has managed a much better record to avoid the DEI, Hamas support craziness. Also, it's unclear how widespread antisemitism is on these campuses and the impact on attractiveness to applicants vs other places (they might have the same problems)?
Lots of factors at play, not to mention the cost of Ivy education has risen to a ridiculous point. Perhaps folks experiencing stick shock.
PS. The fact that certain students support the Palestinian innocents in Gaza and are appalled at Isreal's military campaign doesn't make them antisemitic?
Harvard’s application crash should scare other elite schools on antisemitism
By NY Post Editorial Board
Published March 30, 2024
Harvard's applications dipped this past year following then-President Claudine Gay's House hearing about antisemitism on campus.
Harvard is learning an ancient lesson: You reap what you sow.
On Thursday, the college announced that applications dropped 5% from last year.
This, after early-admission applications fell 17%, to a four-year low.
And it’s all a natural, rational response to the series of scandals that exposed Harvard’s leaders as prioritizing woke ideology over excellence, free speech and student safety.
The first blows: A wave of campus antisemitism after the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, followed by then-President Claudine Gay’s disastrous House hearing in December, where she defended hateful intimidation at anti-Israel protests as “free speech.”
Then came the flood of allegations of plagiarism: First against Gay (which the Harvard Corp. tried to cover up), then against Harvard’s chief DEI officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, then Shirley Greene, another school DEI officer.
Jewish students plainly can’t rely on Harvard’s leadership for protection from antisemites on campus, and how can any student trust a school so eager to push “diversity, equity and inclusion” that it holds DEI hires to laughably low standards?
The students that top schools hope to attract — ambitious, practical and academically oriented — are clearly drawing the obvious conclusion: Harvard’s brand isn’t worth the sky-high cost, and will only get worse until its leaders change course.
Let all of US higher education be warned: If you don’t kick the radicals off campus and off the school’s board, shut down the DEI offices and focus on offering an education worth the cost of tuition, you could be next.