The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has wrapped up a year-long deep dive into how the Yale School of Medicine picks its students, and the findings are sending shockwaves through the ivy-covered halls of academia. Federal investigators report that Yale didn’t just consider race—they intentionally built a system around it.
According to internal documents reviewed by the DOJ, Yale leadership actively tracked ways to use “racial proxies” to get around the Supreme Court’s ban on using race as a factor in admissions.
The data gathered during the probe shows a massive gap in how applicants are treated. Specifically, Black and Hispanic students were found to have a significantly higher chance of being accepted than White or Asian applicants who carried the exact same test scores and academic credentials.
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“Yale has continued its race-based admissions program despite the Supreme Court and the public’s clear mandate for reform,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon. “This Department will continue to shed light on these illegal practices, and demand that institutions of higher education comply with federal law.”
The investigation concluded that the school consistently admitted Black and Hispanic candidates with lower academic qualifications than their peers. Because Yale receives substantial federal funding to train future doctors, the DOJ maintains that these practices are a direct violation of federal law.
The Department is now pushing to remove what it calls “illegal race politics” from medical school admissions, arguing that in a field where public safety is on the line, merit and excellence must be the only metrics that matter.
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