Justice Department zeroes in on UCLA for alleged illegal DEI admissions as elite school crackdown expands
The Justice Department has concluded that UCLA’s medical school engaged in illegal race-based discrimination in admissions, alleging the school favored Black and Hispanic applicants in violation of federal law.The finding...
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The Justice Department has concluded that UCLA’s medical school engaged in illegal race-based discrimination in admissions, alleging the school favored Black and Hispanic applicants in violation of federal law. The finding follows a yearlong federal investigation and marks the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s push to crack down on diversity-based admissions practices across U.S. universities. A lawsuit filed by medical advocacy group Do No Harm prompted the Justice Department's investigation into UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. "UCLA’s admissions process has been focused on racial demographics at the expense of merit and excellence — allowing racial politics to distract the school from the vital work of training great doctors." said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. "Racism in admissions is both illegal and anti-American, and this Department will not allow it to continue." The Justice Department investigation unveiled that UCLA's medical school intentionally selected minority medical students based upon the presumption that minority patients will receive better care if they are under the treatment of a minority doctor. However, the Justice Department found that the medical school's focus on selecting minority medical students resulted in the selected students having significantly lower GPAs and MCAT scores on average than their White and Asian counterparts. UCLA MEDICAL SCHOOL HIT WITH CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT FOR ALLEGEDLY STILL USING RACE-BASED ADMISSIONS PROCESS Amid its investigation, the Justice Department found that David Geffen School of Medicine's executive director of admissions distributed a document outlining how the medical school could still achieve its " diversity goals " to admission committee members. This document also stated the theory that "diversity" of healthcare workers will be crucial in improving healthcare outcomes for Black and Hispanic patients and that deny…