Major Medical School Discriminated Against Whites and Asians in Admissions Process, Justice Department Says

The Justice Department announced the conclusion of a one-year investigation into the University of California at Los Angeles’ David Geffen School of Medicine, finding that race was used as a factor in selecting students for admission.

The agency’s Civil Rights Division reviewed documents showing that “UCLA adheres to the dubious contention that patients receive the best care when treated by a doctor of the same race, rather than by the most qualified,” according to a news release from the Justice Department.

As a result, black and Hispanic students with “consistently lower academic qualifications” were admitted to the prestigious medical school.

The race-driven admissions policy thereby disadvantaged white and Asian applicants.

“Medical schools use substantial federal financial assistance to train the next generation of doctors,” the Justice Department noted.

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UCLA has been caught using race to make decisions about who gets admitted