Harvard to Recruit at Jewish Day Schools After Study Finds Steep Decline in Jewish Enrollment

[rangerrebew]

Harvard to Recruit at Jewish Day Schools After Study Finds Steep Decline in Jewish Enrollment
The Ivy League school will follow Brown’s lead in scouting students at Jewish schools

A graphic from a Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance Report outlines plummeting Jewish enrollment at Harvard and Yale, and growth at Brown.
Ira Stoll
March 17, 2026
Harvard College’s dean of admissions and financial aid, William Fitzsimmons, says Harvard is following Brown University’s lead in admissions outreach targeting Jewish day schools, and that results so far this year have been encouraging.

The dean’s remarks, made February 20 at a Harvard Chabad shabbat dinner at Harvard Business School where a former Brown chancellor was the honored guest speaker, are being reported here for the first time. Fitzsimmons also joined Harvard president Alan Garber and Harvard Chabad in December in publicly lighting the Harvard Chabad chanukah menorah in Harvard Yard.


The news comes as the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance, the university’s official Jewish alumni group, released a 64-page report, A Narrowing Gate: Jewish Enrollment at Harvard and Its Peers, 1967-2025.

"Harvard’s Jewish undergraduate enrollment stands at 7 percent today, the lowest level recorded since before World War II and the lowest of any Ivy League institution with reliable data. That is roughly half what it was a decade ago, and less than a third of the 25 percent share Jewish students held for much of the latter twentieth century," the report says. "Among well-documented peer institutions, no school has seen a steeper recent-decade decline."

The report calls on Harvard to count Jewish applicants, admits, and enrollment, to "commission an independent, third-party investigation" and correct any disparities.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-to-recruit-at-jewish-day-schools-after-study-finds-steep-decline-in-jewish-enrollment/

[rangerrebew]

The way Ivy league schools pander to Muslims and support terrorism, it would be a cold day in hell before I went to an Ivy league school if I were Jewish.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Harvard is worried about losing the Jewish alumni donation gravy train.

Ironically, conservative and centrist Jewish students might be better attending Catholic colleges and universities.

I went to a Jesuit high school, and I had Jewish classmate.  He'd abstain from the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of each class, and the Jesuit instructor would give him a suspicious glance through the whole prayer.

At that time, D.E.I. in Boston was a Jew, a Protestant, a couple of blacks, a couple of asians, and a few Italians.

[PeteS in CA]

What Jewish parent would urge their son or daughter to attend any Ivy League university? Harvard, Yale, whatever, they're all infested with and harboring anti-Semites - students, faculty, and admins.

[Kamaji]

What Jewish parent would urge their son or daughter to attend any Ivy League university? Harvard, Yale, whatever, they're all infested with and harboring anti-Semites - students, faculty, and admins.

You would be surprised, particularly amongst wealthier families in liberal states/cities. 

[DefiantMassRINO]

Wealthier liberal Jewish families fancy themselves after blue-blooded WASPy families.

Nothing says you're somebody like an Ivy League building named after you and perpetual legacy admissions for your descendants at an Ivy League university.

You would be surprised, particularly amongst wealthier families in liberal states/cities.