DOJ says Yale medical school discriminated against Asian, White applicants
Federal investigators say Yale leadership used racial proxies to favor Black and Hispanic applicants over equally qualified peers.
- On Thursday, May 14, 2026, the Department of Justice announced that its year-long investigation into the Yale School of Medicine concluded the institution has been illegally discriminating against White and Asian American applicants in its admissions process.
- The DOJ's Civil Rights Division determined that Yale favored Black and Hispanic applicants at the expense of White and Asian ones, in direct violation of federal civil rights law and the 2023 Supreme Court ruling against race-conscious affirmative action.
- Investigators found that Yale’s use of race resulted in Black applicants having as much as 29 times higher odds of receiving an admission interview than equally qualified Asian applicants with similar grades and standardized test scores.
- Despite Yale's 2023 agreement to move toward "race-neutral" policies, the DOJ concluded the medical school "continues to intentionally discriminate," arguing the school maintains a bias toward racial demographics over merit and academic excellence.
- This finding follows a similar DOJ determination against UCLA’s medical school earlier this month. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon stated that the department is targeting higher education institutions to forcefully end "racism in admissions" across the country.
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DOJ accuses Yale of discriminating against Asian, white students with 'race-based admissions program'
The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally considering race in admissions to its medical school — the second institution to face discrimination allegations by the federal agency this month. In a letter to a lawyer for Yale, Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, said a DOJ investigation found that Black and Hispanic students have a much higher chance of admission to the medical school than whit…
DOJ Accuses Yale Medical School of Favoring Black & Hispanic Applicants
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