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Admissions staff at Yale University\u2019s medical school\u00a0\u201cused racial proxies\u201d and \u201cintentionally selected applicants based on their race\u201d to the benefit of black and Hispanic students, despite a Supreme Court ruling that affirmative action is illegal, according to a new report from the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYale uses its holistic-review procedure to uncover and then use applicants\u2019 race through direct and indirect means,\u201d says a letter from the DOJ, which conducted a year-long investigation into the school. \u201cIt then conducts interviews that enable the committee to know applicants\u2019 race and ethnicity. Race preferences elevate Black and Hispanic applicants in the admissions process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The benefit given to some minority applicants is significant. \u201cBased on our preliminary review of the applicant-level data, Yale\u2019s use of race resulted in a Black applicant being as much as 29 times higher odds of getting an interview for admission than an equally strong Asian applicant with similar academic credentials,\u201d the DOJ states in a letter.<\/p>\n

According to the DOJ, Yale University updated a presentation in 2024 to include a slide that states only \u201cAdmissions post-SCOTUS,\u201d which suggests admissions staff were given verbal instructions \u201cencouraging the use of race\/ethnicity in admissions.\u201d Yale supplied redacted documents to the DOJ that were updated after the Supreme Court decision against Harvard, including one titled \u201cGuidance on Consideration of Race Updated 8.15.25.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Yale Admissions Cycle Committee Retreat 2025 included a presentation titled \u201cRace-Neutral Admissions: Examples from Literature,\u201d which contained a lengthy discussion on increasing the number of \u201cMinority Physicians.\u201d The DOJ says the presentation \u201cpromulgates stereotypes\u201d about these individuals to use as racial proxies for identifying minority applicants and increasing their representation in the student class.<\/p>\n

The DOJ investigation found that the medical school\u2019s orientation instructional packet for admissions staff included a graphic developed by the Association of American Medical Colleges, which includes \u201crace\u201d and \u201cnational origin\u201d as traits to be considered in a holistic applicant assessment. That same graphic was used by UCLA\u2019s medical school in guidance documents for its admissions team, as seen in documents released by DOJ last week regarding its investigation into UCLA.<\/p>\n

According to admissions data for the students who entered Yale\u2019s medical school in 2025, white and Asian students had a median MCAT score in the 100th percentile, whereas the Hispanic students were in the 94th percentile and the black students were in the 95th percentile. White students in that class had a median GPA of 3.97 and Asian students had a median GPA of 3.98, whereas Hispanic students had a median GPA of 3.91 and black students had a median GPA of 3.88.<\/p>\n

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The DOJ argues that these figures show \u201cvirtually no difference\u201d to those from before the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling against Harvard, and the lack of change suggests Yale showed \u201ca willful failure to comply with that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DOJ seeks to enter a voluntary agreement with Yale University to ensure the school\u2019s admissions practices are compliant with the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cYale has continued its race-based admissions program despite the Supreme Court and the public\u2019s clear mandate for reform,\u201d Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division said in a press release on Thursday. \u201cThis Department will continue to shed light on these illegal practices, and demand that institutions of higher education comply with federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, the DOJ concluded its investigation into the admissions practices at UCLA\u2019s medical school and found that black and Hispanic students with \u201csignificantly lower median\u201d MCAT and GPAs are admitted. Data from the 2024 incoming class showed that Hispanic students had a median GPA of 3.56 and black students had a median GPA of 3.72, whereas the median GPA of white and Asian students was 3.83 and 3.84, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, once-respectable institutions believe they can violate antidiscrimination laws with impunity, while the victims \u2014 rather than the perpetrators \u2014 are branded as reprehensible \u2018racists\u2019 for acknowledging such practices,\u201d National Review<\/span> said in an editorial about the findings of the investigation into UCLA. \u201cThankfully, the Trump administration is taking forceful action to expose and punish this egregious violation of our laws and principles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Admissions staff at Yale University\u2019s medical school \u201cused racial proxies\u201d and \u201cintentionally selected applicants based on their race\u201d to the benefit of black and Hispanic students, despite a Supreme Court ruling that affirmative action is illegal, according to a new report from the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"\nDOJ Finds Yale Medical School Discriminates Against White and Asian Applicants - American Housing Transition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DOJ Finds Yale Medical School Discriminates Against White and Asian Applicants - 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