[artnep]

I'm skeptical of the Jewish statistics, which are allegedly based on Hillel documents.

Is Harvard really 25% Jewish? Or is that the fraction of domestic students who have some (possibly small) Jewish ancestry?

And what's the source that Caltech is 5.5% Jewish? Could that mean 5.5% are actually practicing?

Did Hillel actually perform a serious survey/study in these schools, or are these numbers based on some student's guess?

Admittedly, I haven't looked through his citations and supporting material, which looks pretty extensive.

[gradstudent]

I assume "Jewish" means self-identifying as Jewish. Practicing or not or the "degree" to which one can be considered Jewish seems irrelevant.

[artnep]

True, but whether someone self-identifies as Jewish depends on exactly how you ask him. To compare the Jewish representation in the US population, college X, and college Y, it's important that the same definition was used.

Feynman (mentioned in Unz's article) famously objected to being labeled as a Jew or Jewish scientist, since he was unreligious and didn't like the speculations about race and ability.

[barry-cotter]

He used Jewish surnames. His analysis, IIRC, did not control for the fact that top American universities foreign enrollment had been increasing steadily for a long time.

[mplscoder]

The implication is that Jews are gaining advantages from an ethnic network. Discussing even the existence of such a network is not considered acceptable in the West.