Ivies added essays to the applications in the 1930s to deal with the "Jewish problem" - a significant influx of jewish students being admitted based on numerica

Ivies added essays to the applications in the 1930s to deal with the "Jewish problem" - a significant influx of jewish students being admitted based on numerical admissions standards to what were traditionally WASP dominated campuses. Written essays provided the admissions process with a subjective element that allowed applications to be consciously or unconsciously sorted based on linguistic and social cues. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/harvard.html http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/ha...