US EditionUCLA medical school sued for allegedly using race-based admissions policy
- In May 2025, a class-action lawsuit was filed in federal court in Los Angeles by organizations opposing racial preferences in admissions, including a group that successfully challenged Harvard’s affirmative action policies, accusing UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine of racially discriminatory admissions practices.
- The lawsuit alleges that despite the 2023 Supreme Court decision banning race-based admissions and California's Proposition 209 prohibiting consideration of race since 1997, UCLA Medical School continues to factor race into its admissions process by presenting it as part of a holistic evaluation.
- Plaintiffs contend that Associate Dean Jennifer Lucero and the admissions committee systematically accept Black candidates with GPA and MCAT results that fall below the average, while expecting white and Asian applicants to achieve nearly perfect scores to be given serious consideration.
- Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, who leads the organization Do No Harm, asserts that the use of race-based criteria unfairly denies all applicants equal treatment, and he highlights UCLA's unwillingness to disclose admissions data as indicative of possible unlawful discrimination.
- The lawsuit seeks to halt UCLA's alleged intentional racial discrimination in admissions, emphasizing medical schools must abide by merit-based laws and avoid prioritizing immutable characteristics.
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