Yale University discriminates illegally against Asian American and White applicants during the admissions process, the Justice Department said Thursday after an investigation.
The DOJ informed Yale in a letter from Civil Rights Division official Eric Drieband that it had reached the conclusion after a two-year investigation that was triggered by a complaint from Asian American groups.
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“Yale loses substantial, and often determinative, race-based preferences to certain racially favored candidates and relatively and significantly disfavors other applicants because of their race,” Drieband said in the letter. “Yale’s racial discrimination imposes unreasonable and unjustified fines on rationally disadvantaged applicants, including in particular Asian American and White applicants.”
As a condition of “receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer funding,” the letter said the Ivy League University must agree to comply with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the grounds of race, color or national origin in programs and activities that receive financial assistance from the federal government.
The university responded that it “fully cooperated with the DOJ’s investigation” and produced “substantial” information for it, but that it did not compile all the data yet.
“We are concerned that the DOJ has made its determination before allowing Yale to provide any information that the department has requested so far. Had the department received this information in full and waited honestly, it would have concluded that Yale’s practices are fully compliant. to decades of Supreme Court justice, “said Karen N. Peart, a spokeswoman for Yale, in a statement.
The DOJ also claims that race is the determining factor in hundreds of permitted decisions each year.
“The chances of admission for Asian American and White applicants who have similar academic credentials are significantly lower than for African-American and Spanish applicants to Yale College. For the vast majority of applicants, Asian American and White applicants have only one tenth to one. – fourth chance of qualifying as an African-American candidate with similar academic credentials. ”
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Yale has been discriminating for decades, according to the DOJ, and it seems that the university “intends to continue to discriminate on the basis of race, apparently in perpetuity. Indeed, Yale acknowledges that it intends to continue to discriminate race-based admissions process for the “predictable future.”
But the school’s statement said the university “looks after the whole person in selecting who will be admitted among the many thousands of highly qualified applicants.”
“We consider a number of factors, including their academic performance, interests, demonstrated leadership, background, success to the maximum benefit of their high school and community resources, and the opportunity they will contribute to the Yale community and the world. . “
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The DOJ asks Yale to agree not to use race as a national origin in the upcoming undergraduate admission cycle 2020-21, or to submit a plan to the Department of Justice proving a proposal, “narrowly adjusted as required by law.” “Any such proposal must include an end date for Yale’s use of race.”
