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Europeans (namely Protestant Christians) founded just about ever Ivy League school, and undoubtedly these schools produce America's leaders in every sector of society.
And it's astonishing how underrepresented European-Americans are in these most critical institutions.
While many of these statistics are shocking, keep in mind that the numbers are fudged as well. Asiatic folks are counted as "white", as are likely some Hispanics.
Your numbers are wrong. And your premise is wrong.
White students constitute the plurality or majority of students at every single Ivy League school. Every last one. Your data for Columbia and Cornell are wrong, BTW.
And these are global institutions. Why would you expect that global institutions, attracting students from every corner of the globe, would be overwhelmingly of European descent? How does that make any sense?
Ivy League institutions, if anything, are much whiter than other elite U.S. universities. They actually tend to have much smaller Asian populations than other elite non-Ivy schools.
Your numbers are wrong. And your premise is wrong.
White students constitute the plurality or majority of students at every single Ivy League school. Every last one. Your data for Columbia and Cornell are wrong, BTW.
And these are global institutions. Why would you expect that global institutions, attracting students from every corner of the globe, would be overwhelmingly of European descent? How does that make any sense?
Ivy League institutions, if anything, are much whiter than other elite U.S. universities. They actually tend to have much smaller Asian populations than other elite non-Ivy schools.
They weren't founded by a bunch of American white men?
They aren't Chinese universities...they are American universities...and they in fact do overwhelmingly produce our leaders from private to government sectors.
More importantly, they ALL take our tax dollars - Americans' tax dollars. So you had better believe they are AMERICAN institutions.
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What happened to the whole thing about "If they didn't make it into that school, it's because they are not smart"
Or that only applies when it is convenient?
It obviously is convenient because places like Harvard take less intelligent people simply because they are their preferred color.
Ivy League institutions, if anything, are much whiter than other elite U.S. universities. They actually tend to have much smaller Asian populations than other elite non-Ivy schools.
Plenty of non-Europeans get mixed in with the "white" categories to further fudge the numbers. I think you missed that part of my post.
Regarding the Asian thing, I agree that places like Harvard also discriminate against them. That's been proven.
What happened to the whole thing about "If they didn't make it into that school, it's because they are not smart"
Or that only applies when it is convenient?
Right. This actually came up as an issue at UC Berkeley back in the 90's or so. Euro-American parents complained that Asian students were taking their kids' seats, but it was because the Asian-American students were better qualified. They were running away with all the prizes, while the more complacent Euro=Am students had taken for granted their admission to the school. And back then, Berkeley wasn't even making the big effort to recruit foreign students that it is now; most of those Asian students were native-born Americans, both local to Berkeley and the Bay Area, and other in-state locations, as well as out-of-state applicants from elsewhere around the US.
Still grinding that axe, eh, OP? It's not enough for you, that unqualified Euro-Am students can get in via "legacy" admissions; you want some kind of "affirmative action" for the spoiled, lazy White kids? As others have said, check your statistics, first. IDK about Columbia, a so-called "public Ivy", but the private Ivies are still predominantly White institutions last I heard, which was pretty recently. If your Bobby and Muffie didn't get admitted, they likely didn't make the cut. University admissions these days, to the more prestigious schools, are extremely selective and can be brutally stressful for high school students.
By , 04/12/17 4:03pm
A newly released report sheds light on enormous sums of money the federal government provides to Ivy League universities — and how that money is handled.
The report comes from Open the Books, an organization that aims to make public spending more transparent. It concluded that in the six fiscal years between 2010 and 2015, a full $41.59 billion of the Ivy League’s money could be traced back to taxpayer-funded payments and benefits.
To put that in perspective, the average amount of money that the eight Ivy League schools received annually over that time period — $4.31 billion — exceeds the amount of money received by 16 of the 50 states.
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