It's just affirmative action. This sort of thing happens in <i>every</i> multicultural country, especially when one group apparently does better financially than the others.<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Affirmative-Action-Around-World-Empirical/dp/0300107757" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Affirmative-Action-Around-World-Empiri...</a><p>The Russians came up with an unusually crass method for this, but guess what? Jews and other whites and East Asians all are, to some degree, kept from elite institutions <i>today</i> because of our more subtle system.
I'm assuming this is a follow-up on <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752047" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752047</a><p>Wow, that is crazy!! Even though i have 2 math degrees and am doing applied math and stats for a living, there is a very good chance I'd fail such an exam if I took it now!
Number 17 doesn't look to be extraordinary, it actually was commonly given in Moscow State University (on math and computer science departments) until recently, when oral examinations were removed altogether.<p>In general such discrimination against Jews in Moscow State University was commonplace until the beginning of 1990s, and is gone since then.
To see problems that incoming students of MSU math department need to solve now, you can check out: <a href="http://www.math.msu.su/admission/exams-write.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.math.msu.su/admission/exams-write.html</a><p>E.g. <a href="http://www.math.msu.su/admission/MATWRITE/w2001j~1.gif" rel="nofollow">http://www.math.msu.su/admission/MATWRITE/w2001j~1.gif</a>
does not seem much easier than "jewish" problems; and my understanding is that math department of MSU attempts to admit brilliant people who deliberately prepare to solve problems of this kind.
Jews invented racial discrimination. Let a gentile apply to a Jewish school, even if his father is Jewish and he practices Judaism they will turn him down if his mother is not ethnically Jewish.
Guys, I studied in Moscow Institute of Pysics and technology, top technical university in the former USSR - I had in my class people who won International Olympiads in physics, math, chemistry, computer science. Those problems are average or below - you could meet them on math entrance exams to economics specialization. Problems are of the level of district\city math olympiads. I'm sure that jewish people as well as any other applicants with good math background solved them without big problems.
I think America will soon be having a Holocaust problem.<p><a href="http://www.infowars.com/poll-nearly-one-third-of-americans-would-accept-tsa-body-cavity-search-in-order-to-fly/" rel="nofollow">http://www.infowars.com/poll-nearly-one-third-of-americans-w...</a>