DOJ accuses UC San Diego medical school of bias in admissions

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday accused the University of California (UC) San Diego School of Medicine of racial discrimination in its application process by favoring Black and Hispanic applicants.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said its investigation found that the medical school allegedly discriminated against applicants by using “race-neutral” practices in order to “deliberately increase admission” of racial minorities regardless of merit.

“San Diego Med’s documents show that admissions staff used purportedly ‘race-neutral’ subjective criteria to deliberately increase admission of so-called ‘underrepresented minorities in medicine’ (URM), which includes black and Hispanic applicants,” the department said in a statement.

The DOJ added that the findings were in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the landmark 2023 Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions........

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