George Washington U. Skirted Race Ban with Essays to Favor Black Applicants, DOJ Finds

George Washington U. skirted race ban with essays to favor black applicants, DOJ finds

Essay questions ‘were designed to elicit information about an applicant’s race’ The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Services used essay questions in the admissions process to admit more black students, the Department of Justice found. The schools violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair… Source

DOJ Says George Washington University Allegedly Factored Race Into Medical School Admissions

George Washington University Medical School admissions officers allegedly rejected white and Asian candidates for the 2024 and 2025 incoming classes in favor of lower-credentialed black and Hispanic applicants, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said today. Her agency investigated illegal admissions practices that violate federal Civil Rights laws prohibiting discrimination based on race. Additionally, a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling i…

George Washington University med school illegally discriminates in admissions, DOJ finds

George Washington University Medical School intentionally and illegally gives Black and Hispanic applicants an advantage in admissions, the Justice Department said Thursday,

Explosive DOJ Report: How Elite Medical Schools Secretly Discriminated Against White and Asian Applicants

The already grueling medical school admissions race just got a whole lot more complicated, and frankly, more contentious. For years, the debate around affirmative action in higher education has simmered, occasionally boiling over. But with the Supreme Court’s landmark 2023 ruling effectively outlawing race-conscious admissions, that simmer has turned into a full-blown inferno. Now, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is throwing gasoline on the…