The U.S. Department of Justice has opened civil rights investigations into the medical schools at Stanford University, Ohio State University, and the University of California, San Diego, over possible racial discrimination in their admissions practices.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet K. Dhillon sent letters to the three institutions on Wednesday, Mar. 26, demanding seven years of admissions data by Apr. 24.
The requested information includes students’ race, Medical College Admission Test scores, home addresses and ZIP codes, internal DEI communications, and messages between university officials and pharmaceutical companies about admissions, according to the New York Times…