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>>9397951
"Dean Frederick Scheetz Jones of Yale (Class of1884)...: 'I think we shall have to change our views in regard to the Jewish element.... A few years ago every single scholarship of any value was won by a Jew.... We must put a ban on the Jews....'"
"Harvard, Yale, and Princeton [circa 1920] thus faced a painful choice: either maintain the almost exclusively objective academic standards for admission and face the arrival of increasing numbers of Jews /or/ replace them with more subjective criteria that could be deployed to produce the desired result. Their decision to do the latter was a great departure from their historic practices and bequeathed to us the peculiar admissions process that we now take for granted."
---The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard..., pg. 75 & 76

>>9399973
Both.
Historically, Jews were persecuted because of their religion, so had to work hard to pass on their traditions. That involved teaching all children to read, in order to study the Torah.
They were also confined primarily to white collar work, which requires higher mental faculties to be proficient at. Over time, intelligence in the Jewish population was more and more selected for. Hence why today Jews are practically the smartest race in the world.
>>9401015
Yes it matters which lineage you're talking about.