Huh interesting because 2 minutes of reading the wikipedia page says the opposite.
It says he was denied because of jewish quota's, which were to prevent universities from having too many jewish people.
"'In 1935 Yale accepted 76 applicants from a pool of 501. About 200 of those applicants were Jewish and only five got in.' He notes that Dean Milton Winternitz's instructions were remarkably precise: 'Never admit more than five Jews, and take no blacks at all'"
sometimeslowly t1_iu7asn1 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that Richard Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists ever, was rejected admission to Columbia University because of his Jewish ancestry and instead went to MIT. by icbm67
Huh interesting because 2 minutes of reading the wikipedia page says the opposite.
It says he was denied because of jewish quota's, which were to prevent universities from having too many jewish people.
"'In 1935 Yale accepted 76 applicants from a pool of 501. About 200 of those applicants were Jewish and only five got in.' He notes that Dean Milton Winternitz's instructions were remarkably precise: 'Never admit more than five Jews, and take no blacks at all'"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota