Out-of-town Colleges Accept Only Two-thirds of Jewish Applicants, ADL Survey Reports

Out-of-town colleges and universities in the United States receive 11 percent of their applications from Jewish students and ac## Jews seven percent of their places in freshman classes, a survey conducted by the ### Roper organization and financed by a grant from the Anti-Defamation League re####led today.

“The frequent charge made against the colleges that they discriminate ##inst Jewish students seems to be proven, but only in part and perhaps not nearly |the extent which is frequently charged,” the report said. While Jews “ultimately proceed in getting a chance at some kind of college education as often as Protestants ##” the report points out, they must try more colleges in order to do it.

The report declared that “Jews are a definitely disadvantaged group when comes to getting into college, but the .situation is complex, and cannot be de##ribed in the simple terms of general, across-the-board, discrimination. A much ##rger proportion of Jewish high school seniors apply to college than Protestants or ##tholics, and the Jewish applicants are heavily concentrated In the geographic area greatest over-all application pressure, the northeast, the survey said, adding at the end result is that the “college accepts not only a smaller absolute number Jewish applicants than non-Jewish, but also a smaller proportion of Jewish applications than non-Jewish.”N.Y. State Supreme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink, chairman of the A.D.L., commenting on the report, said that it offered “conclusive proof of the need for a state university, bias-free and open to accredited high school graduates of New York state. The only effective counterforce to the private colleges which have systematically barred Jews and other minorities,” he noted, “have been municipal and state colleges which do not discriminate.”