Yale College: Difference between revisions

Enrollment at Yale only became competitive in the early 20th century, requiring the college to set up an admissions process. As late as the 1950s, tests and demographic questionnaires for admission to the college worked to exclude non-Christian men, especially Jews, as well as non-white men.<ref name="Kabaservice1999">{{cite magazine |last=Kabaservice |first=Geoffrey |title=The Birth of a New Institution |magazine=Yale Alumni Magazine |date=December 1999 |url=https://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/99_12/admissions.html |access-date=May 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402110732/http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/99_12/admissions.html# |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> By the mid-1960s, these processes were becoming more meritocratic, allowing for the recruitment of a racially, economically, and geographically diverse student body.<ref>{{cite book |last=Karaben |first=Jerome |title=The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton |year=2005 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=9780618773558 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/chosen00jero_0 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Soares |first=Joseph A. |title=The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges |year=2007 |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford, CA |isbn= 9780804756389}}</ref> This meritocratic transition encouraged the university to establish the first [[need-blind admission]]s policy in the United States.<ref name="Kabaservice1999"/> After several decades of debate about [[mixed-sex education|coeducation]], Yale College admitted its first class of women in 1969.<ref>{{cite news |title=Yale Will Admit Women in 1969; May Have Coeducational Housing |newspaper=Harvard Crimson |date=November 15, 1968 |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1968/11/15/yale-will-admit-women-in-1969/ |access-date=April 1, 2015}}</ref>

 

 

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