The DOJ is seeking to join a lawsuit against the school.
By Catholics for Catholics
Accusing California’s uppermost public medical school of engaging in racial discrimination in its admissions process, The Trump administration announced plans to join a federal lawsuit.
UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine takes part in “racial balancing” and “intentional discrimination on the basis of race and ethnicity in the admissions process,” giving favoritism to black applicants over Asian and white students, according to court documents.
On Wednesday, the Justice Department said that the school was violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, according to The Daily Wire. The original lawsuit was filed by a woman who contends she was rejected an admission into the school because she was white, alongside the groups Do No Harm and Students for Fair Admissions.
“Even after the Supreme Court banned race-balancing, the Geffen School kept discriminating by using illegal DEI preferences in admissions,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “As the Supreme Court stated more than 80 years ago, a free people, founded on the doctrine of equality, regard distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry as inherently odious.”
NEW: UCLA School of Medicine (@UCLA) is being sued for racial discrimination after whistleblowers reported that Black and Latino applicants were being given LOWER standards for admission when compared to White and Asian students.
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According to data gathered by the Justice Department, white and Asian students are held to higher academic standards than black and Hispanic students. For the 2024 incoming class of students at the medical school, the median MCAT scores were very different for black students (508), Hispanic students (506), white students (513), and Asian students (515). The MCAT is the test aspiring doctors and medical professionals take before going to medical school.
Three “disastrous consequences” of race-based admissions were found by the Justice Department. These were the reduction of academic standards, the distrust minority doctors are viewed due to the lower standards, and the denial of equal treatment to people of all races.
“There is but one legal avenue for a public or publicly funded medical school to pursue diversity in medicine: admit the most qualified candidates regardless of race and expect that those most qualified candidates will come from every race, because they do,” the complaint said.
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