The Justice Department says the Yale School of Medicine discriminated based on race in its admissions, violating federal law.
After a year long investigation wrapped up, The Civil Rights Division found Yale’s leadership intentionally selected applicants based on their race.
The Civil Rights Division says documents show Yale studied how to use racial proxies to get around the Supreme Court’s prohibition on using race to select students. Admissions data show Black and Hispanic students had a much higher chance of getting into Yale than White or Asian students with the same test scores.
“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.”
The investigation showed Black and Hispanic applicants were admitted with consistently lower academic qualifications than their White and Asian counterparts. The Department found Yale violated the law by intentionally discriminating based on race in its admissions.
