Just days after the U.S. Department of Justice released a statement claiming that the University of California, Los Angeles’ medical school illegally considered race in its admissions processes, the federal department has made the same claims against the Yale School of Medicine.
After conducting a year-long investigation into the Ivy League medical school, the DOJ determined that Yale used “racial proxies to circumvent the Supreme Court’s prohibition on using race to select students” and that “Black and Hispanic applicants were admitted with consistently lower academic qualifications than their White and Asian counterparts.”
“Yale has continued its race-based admissions program despite the Supreme Court and the public’s clear mandate for reform,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This Department will continue to shed light on these illegal practices, and demand that institutions of higher education comply with federal law.”
In an email to Yale News, Karen Peart, associate vice president for communications at Yale University, said that students admitted to Yale School of Medicine “demonstrate exceptional academic achievement and personal commitment,” and that the medical school “is confident in the rigorous admissions process [they] follow.”
