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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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The U.S. Department of Justice accused Yale's medical school on Thursday of discrimination against white and Asian candidates, following an investigation into diversity practices at this elite university.
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The Department of Justice held that the faculty of Medicine continued to apply ethnic criteria despite the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action
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