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- The U.S. Department of Justice's investigation found that Yale School of Medicine intentionally used racial criteria in its admissions process, favoring Black and Hispanic applicants over equally qualified White and Asian candidates.
- Yale's admissions practices reportedly violate a Supreme Court ruling against using race for student selection, as black and Hispanic students were admitted with lower academic qualifications on average.
- The DOJ's scrutiny also extends to other medical schools, including UCLA and Stanford, which have faced allegations of similar racial discrimination in admissions.
Yale School of Medicine has “intentionally selected applicants based on their race,” the U.S. Department of Justice found after a year-long investigation.
“Yale’s documents reveal that they studied how to use racial proxies to circumvent the Supreme Court’s prohibition on using race to select students,” the department announced in a news release Thursday.
Further, the school’s “admissions data demonstrate that Black and Hispanic students have a much higher chance of admission to Yale than White or Asian students with the same test scores,” the department stated.
On average, black and Hispanic applicants were admitted with significantly lower academic qualifications than white and Asian applicants.
The department also noted that the federal government helps fund medical schools.
“Yale has continued its race-based admissions program despite the Supreme Court and the public’s clear mandate for reform,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in a statement.
“This Department will continue to shed light on these illegal practices, and demand that institutions of higher education comply with federal law,” she said.
In a post on X, Dhillon wrote, “a black applicant is 29 times more likely to be invited to interview than an Asian with equally strong academics.”
This development is not isolated.
Last week, the Justice Department announced that the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles is also engaging in racial discrimination in its admissions process, The College Fix reported.
Like Yale, the school consistently admitted black and Hispanic students who had lower academic credentials than their white and Asian peers.
However, it appears these are not the only schools discriminating based on race in admissions.
Last year, Ian Kingsbury, director of research at Do No Harm, requested admissions data from all 93 public medical schools, according to his April 2025 article in City Journal.
At nearly all of the 23 schools that responded, black applicants were admitted with significantly lower MCAT scores than white and Asian applicants.
Meanwhile, Stanford School of Medicine recently removed diversity, equity, and inclusion language from its website after the Justice Department launched an investigation into its admissions, The Fix reported.
For example, the former Office of Diversity in Medical Education has been renamed the Office of Community Health and Engagement.
However, the university’s Department of Graduate Medical Education, within the newly renamed OCHE, is still set to hold its 9th Annual Diversity and Inclusion Forum.
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