Overview
- Yale School of Medicine, which was cited Thursday, was found by the Justice Department to have favored Black and Hispanic applicants over equally qualified White and Asian applicants.
- The department said internal emails, training materials and presentations showed leaders intended to consider race and studied racial proxies through holistic review and interviews.
- Applicant data cited by the DOJ showed admitted Black and Hispanic students had lower academic metrics than peers, including a most recent class where Black students’ median GPA was 3.88 versus 3.98 for Asian students and 3.97 for White students, with MCAT medians at the 95th percentile for Black students and the 100th for White and Asian students.
- Investigators said a Black applicant had as much as 29 times higher odds of receiving an interview than an equally strong Asian applicant, and they believe the practices continue.
- The DOJ is seeking a voluntary resolution agreement and could pursue Title VI enforcement if Yale resists, following a similar May 6 finding at UCLA and ongoing probes at Stanford, Ohio State and UC San Diego; Yale said it will review the letter and defended the rigor of its process.