Universities Still Using Race in Admissions

Updated: 2026.10.05 1H ago 1 sources
Three years after the Supreme Court banned race‑conscious admissions, Department of Justice probes and published statistical analyses show many elite law and medical schools still admit Black and Hispanic applicants at much higher odds than similarly qualified White and Asian applicants. The gap appears across multiple institutions (Yale, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSF, Duke, etc.), implying either undisclosed compensatory factors or continued unconstitutional discrimination. — If true, the pattern raises pressing questions about enforcement of federal civil‑rights law, the integrity of admissions processes, and the future of merit, diversity and legal compliance at major universities.

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Still Discriminating
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DOJ investigations opened into Harvard, Yale, UCLA, numerous medical and law schools, and reported odds ratios such as Berkeley giving Blacks ~6× the admission odds at similar credentials; Yale inviting Blacks up to 29× more often for interviews than comparable Asians.
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