The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced a finding that the University of California San Diego School of Medicine violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard by using race in its admissions process.
According to federal investigators, the medical school manipulated applicant data and relied on racial proxies to increase the enrollment of underrepresented minorities in medicine, specifically Black and Hispanic applicants.
The department stated that the school utilized a secondary evaluation process where admissions staff evaluated applicants using subjective criteria, such as responses to application questions regarding personal hardships, to identify underrepresented minority applicants…