Marcia G Synnott's Higher Education

In the 1900’s, higher education was viewed as very valuable and a key to great success. Most universities would only accept young man from white American prestigious families, whose fathers, fathers have attend the university. The article The admission and Assimilation of Minority Students at Harvard, Yale and Princeton by Marcia G Synnott gives a glimpse on how hard it was for minorities to be accepted to the Big three known as Harvard, Yale and Princeton. There were many challenges created to minorities such as Jews, Catholics, African Americans and many more that were applying to the universities. Synnott described how aftermath of World War Two changed the admission requirements and how the universities began to diversify. With time the universities changed their policies towards admissions so that they have equal opportunities towards all races.
After the Civil War to the 1920’s was a flood of immigrants coming to the United States. Some native born Americans felt that the new immigrants were taking away their jobs and opportunities of success. President Woodrow Wilson began to promote that Americans should only be loyal to the United States. There were regulations constructed against the new immigrants, denial of education and economic opportunities. Without education the immigrants had no chance of getting higher paying jobs. …show more content…
There was a flood of veterans applying to colleges. Scholarships were made for the veterans know as G.I. benefits and the National Defense Education Act. Many veterans joined the universities staff of admissions and changed the admissions by requiring high academic standards. They also expanded more scholarships aids for students. Harvard, Yale and Princeton began to broaden and diversify their student body by creating target numbers for racial minorities. They also began to give scholarships to Jews and Catholics and later to