DOJ Says Yale Medical School Admissions Are Discriminatory

Pedestrians outside Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.

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The US Justice Department accused Yale University’s medical school of ongoing discriminatory admissions practices, according to a letter from the civil rights division shared by the agency on Thursday.

The finding came after a yearlong investigation into the Yale School of Medicine that reviewed data and policies that the Justice Department said amounted to an attempt to circumvent a US Supreme Court prohibition on race-based admissions.