However some households, even Orthodox Jewish households, weren’t deterred by the unhealthy publicity.
“Getting accepted to Harvard remains to be getting accepted to Harvard,” mentioned Rivka Scheinfeld, whose daughter, Tamar, a pupil at YULA Excessive College, a Jewish day college in Los Angeles, was accepted early. Tamar mentioned she utilized after Oct. 7, and thought she could possibly be a voice towards antisemitism. “I wish to go, I wish to advocate for one thing that I do know is correct,” she mentioned.
Many faculties have been shaken by protests over the battle in Gaza, in addition to by complaints of antisemitism and Islamophobia over the previous couple of months. Brown noticed its share of campus battle over the battle, with dozens of scholars arrested for trespassing following two sit-ins on campus.
However the College of Pennsylvania noticed file functions — 65,230 — a virtually 10 % rise from the yr earlier than, regardless of criticism of its then-president, M. Elizabeth Magill, for her legalistic testimony on antisemitism within the Home listening to.
One vital distinction between Harvard and Penn: Ms. Magill resigned swiftly — on Dec. 9, 4 days after her testimony. Dr. Homosexual, who testified the identical day, lingered on till Jan. 2, as accusations of plagiarism towards her mounted on prime of the complaints that she had not taken a robust sufficient stance towards antisemitism.
General, Harvard obtained 54,008 undergraduate functions on this admissions cycle, in contrast with 56,937 final yr, a drop of about 5 %. That continues a pattern that started with early functions, which had been down 17 % this cycle. Common functions had been down by nearly 3 %, to 46,087 from 47,384.
