Post by The Atlantic / Redsky

“Selective colleges outside the Northeast, sensing an intensifying disdain for Ivy League schools among Jewish teens and their parents, are tripping over one another to recruit these students,” Rose Horowitch reports: https://theatln.tc/Ew16ld2r

aug 27, 2025, 11:15 am • 17 3

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This is pathetic.

aug 27, 2025, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view

When Black students get accepted to Ivy Leagues they go to Ivy Leagues, despite the guaranteed racism they will face.

Historically, one or two Ramaz graduates in a given year would apply early-decision to Emory University, the head of Emory’s Chabad chapter told me. Last year, 12 did. (Chabad is a Hasidic group that focuses on outreach to nonobservant Jews.) Jewish-student interest in Emory, as well as in Vanderbilt, has more than doubled since October 7, 2023, rabbis at the universities told me. Vanderbilt’s Hillel had to hire new staff to host all the prospective students who wanted tours; the university’s undergraduate Jewish population has grown by 20 percent in the past two years. The University of Florida’s Hillel chapter experienced a 50 percent increase in student participation from 2021 to 2025. Clemson University—a South Carolina school not often associated with vibrant Jewish student life—saw its Hillel grow fourfold over the same period. Southern Methodist University, near Dallas, now appears to have more Jewish students than Harvard, Hillel data show.

aug 27, 2025, 11:25 am • 1 0 • view

This will be interesting.

aug 27, 2025, 11:20 am • 1 0 • view

About to FAFO if true

aug 27, 2025, 11:23 am • 0 0 • view

Once again, unwarranted pearl clutching at the idea that the rest of the country is just more cosmopolitan than New England is capable of believing.

aug 27, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view

I feel like this narrative is forced. Emory and Washington University have had strong Jewish populations in their student body for decades. Saying "Harvard could fill its entire student body with Jewish Students if it wanted to" may be true but it is also true of many other demographics.

aug 27, 2025, 11:29 am • 6 0 • view

Is there actual evidence that Cambridge Massachusetts is more anti-Semitic and less safe for Jewish students than Nashville or Gainesville? Is it possible that young students are choosing to go southern schools because it's part of an overall trend and not safety related?

aug 27, 2025, 11:29 am • 4 0 • view

Anyone who knows anything about this knows this is drivel. So many Giveaways that this is 100% BS. But the use of the word “sensing” is always a giveaway for a non evidenced article. The Atlantic really is poor these days.

aug 27, 2025, 11:21 am • 12 1 • view

Hmm, I did a little Googling and found this scathing takedown. (I can't comment on its accuracy.) www.rochester.edu/College/tran...

aug 27, 2025, 11:56 am • 1 0 • view

Yep. Pretty much sums it up. Although it’s not so much belief as evidence free propaganda that fits in with their obsession..

aug 27, 2025, 11:59 am • 2 0 • view

Oy. Not sending my kids to a red state.

aug 27, 2025, 11:20 am • 5 0 • view

Good observation at the end:

aug 27, 2025, 12:01 pm • 0 0 • view