Stanford University recently released a report acknowledging that it used to discriminate in admissions against Jewish students and apologizing for that practice.

John Rosenberg puts Stanford’s contrite admission under the magnifying glass.

He writes:

Until 1952, admission was not selective; virtually all males who applied were accepted. That changed in 1953, when Stanford first turned to selective admissions — this, not by coincidence, is when it began restricting the number of Jewish students. However, unlike the Ivy League’s restriction of Jewish admissions in the 1920s, Stanford administrators in 1953 had no clear picture of the ideal “Stanford man,” but they knew that too many Jews would distort it.

Stanford’s president now says that its discrimination against Jews was wrong. Okay.

Rosenberg continues:

The recent Stanford report is impressive, but it is not without blind spots. The most glaring is its failure to acknowledge that its policy of restricting Jews is more than similar to the racially and ethnically discriminatory policies of Stanford and similar institutions today; it is virtually identical. The old descriptions and defenses — creating “balance,” judging each candidate individually, denying quotas — are still very much in use.

In half a century, will Stanford issue another report, lamenting its current discrimination against Asians?