In 2023, the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard said that it was unconstitutional to discriminate in college admissions based on race. But since then we’ve seen pretty strong evidence that some schools are doing their best to cheat their way around this ruling.
In the past two years, the Trump administration has accused a bunch of specific schools of cheating.
In May, the Trump administration opened a new front in its crackdown on the higher education sector.
The U.S. Department of Justice said it had completed a yearlong investigation into the University of California, Los Angeles’ medical school and concluded that the public institution was discriminating based on race by giving Black and Hispanic applicants a leg up in the admissions process. UCLA pushed back against claims it was violating the law.
Since then, the DOJ has produced similar findings against four other medical schools and one law school, alleging that they are violating the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against race-conscious admissions.
In June of this year the DOJ announced it was opening 15 more probes into medical school admissions, though it didn’t name the schools under investigation.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today that it opened fifteen new investigations into potential race discrimination in medical school admissions. The Division recently announced its findings that the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Yale University both illegally used race in medical school admissions.
But despite all of this effort, it seems many schools are more committed to equity practices than they are to following the law. In short, they are still cheating.
