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According to historian David Oshinsky, on writing about Jonas Salk, " Most of the surrounding medical schools ( Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale ) had rigid quotas in place.

In 1935 Yale accepted 76 applicants from a pool of 501.

About 200 of those applicants were Jewish and only five got in.

" He notes that the dean's instructions were remarkably precise: " Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all.

" As a result, Oshinsky added, " Jonas Salk and hundreds like him " enrolled in New York University instead.