Justice Department Finds Yale Discriminated Based on Race in Undergraduate Admissions

U.S. says school rejected white, Asian American applicants based on their race

By Aug. 13, 2020 4:47 pm ET

Justice Department officials said that race was the ‘determinative factor’ in hundreds of Yale University’s admissions decisions.

Photo: Matt Ormseth/Hartford Courant/TNS/Zuma Press

The Justice Department said it determined that Yale University has discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants, issuing its findings nearly two years after opening an investigation into the school’s admissions practices.

The department said Thursday that it found Yale discriminates based on race and national origin, and that race was the “determinative factor” in hundreds of admissions decisions each year. It said for the majority of applicants, Asian-American and white students have one-tenth to one-fourth the likelihood of being admitted as African-American applicants with comparable academic credentials.

“Yale rejects scores of Asian American and white applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit,” the Justice Department said.

Yale spokeswoman Karen Peart said the school has cooperated with the investigation and is “dismayed that the DOJ has made its determination before allowing Yale to provide all the information the Department has requested thus far.”

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40751674)

edit: ty

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40751677)

https://apnews.com/e97f08eb935989840bda430bb7a32e15?

Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Justice Department investigation has found Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of federal civil rights law, officials said Thursday.

Yale denied the allegation, calling it “meritless” and “hasty.”

The findings detailed in a letter to the college’s attorneys Thursday mark the latest action by the Trump administration aimed at rooting out discrimination in the college application process, following complaints from students about the application process at some Ivy League colleges. The Justice Department had previously filed court papers siding with Asian American groups who had levied similar allegations against Harvard University.

The two-year investigation concluded that Yale “rejects scores of Asian American and white applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit,” the Justice Department said. The investigation stemmed from a 2016 complaint against Yale, Brown and Dartmouth.

“Yale’s race discrimination imposes undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular Asian American and White applicants,” Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband, who heads the department’s civil rights division, wrote in a letter to the college’s attorneys.

Prosecutors found that Yale has been discriminating against applicants to its undergraduate program based on their race and national origin and “that race is the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year.” The investigation concluded that Asian American and white students have “only one-tenth to one-fourth of the likelihood of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials,” the Justice Department said.

“Unlawfully dividing Americans into racial and ethnic blocs fosters stereotypes, bitterness, and division,” Dreiband said in a statement. “It is past time for American institutions to recognize that all people should be treated with decency and respect and without unlawful regard to the color of their skin.”

The investigation also found that Yale uses race as a factor in multiple steps of the admissions process and that Yale “racially balances its classes.”

The Supreme Court has ruled colleges and universities may consider race in admissions decisions but has said that must be done in a narrowly tailored way to promote diversity and should be limited in time. Schools also bear the burden of showing why their consideration of race is appropriate.

In a statement, Yale said it “categorically denies this allegation,” has cooperated fully with the investigation and has been continually turning over “a substantial amount of information and data.”

“Given our commitment to complying with federal law, we are dismayed that the DOJ has made its determination before allowing Yale to provide all the information the Department has requested thus far,” the university said in a statement. “Had the Department fully received and fairly weighed this information, it would have concluded that Yale’s practices absolutely comply with decades of Supreme Court precedent.”

The university said it considers a multitude of factors and looks at “the whole person when selecting whom to admit among the many thousands of highly qualified applicants.”

“We are proud of Yale’s admissions practices, and we will not change them on the basis of such a meritless, hasty accusation,” the statement said.

The Justice Department has demanded that Yale immediately stop and agree not to use race or national origin for upcoming admissions. The government also says that if Yale proposes that it will continue to use race or national origin as a factor in future admission cycles, the college must first submit a plan to the Justice Department “demonstrating its proposal is narrowly tailored as required by law, including by identifying a date for the end of race discrimination.”

The Justice Department has also previously raised similar concerns about Harvard University, which prosecutors accused of “engaging in outright racial balancing,” siding with Asian American students in a lawsuit who allege the Ivy League school discriminated against them.

A federal judge in 2019 cleared Harvard of discriminating against Asian American applicants in a ruling that was seen as a major victory for supporters of affirmative action in college admissions across the U.S. That ruling has been appealed and arguments are scheduled for next month.

In the Harvard case, the Justice Department had argued that the university went too far in its use of race, but the judge disagreed. Though the Supreme Court has ruled that colleges’ use of race in admissions must be “narrowly tailored” and can be only a “plus factor,” past rulings still give colleges wide latitude in considering a wide range of factors, including race, as they build their classes.

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TOO BAD, KAREN!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40751702)

sometimes you argue that the *other* side hasn't given you all the necessary discovery. but you can't complain that you haven't produced your own documents

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40754708)

https://www.ivycollegeadmit.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/trends-1024x529.png

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they've spent their whole lives learning how to rigorously and perfectly spit back precisely the right answer as defined by the authorities (specifically HYS).

Right now the "right answer" is that Asians aren't discriminated against. That's what they're hearing from the people who - remember - they've been taught their whole lives to follow unquestioningly. So they spit it back, hoping for that TITCR

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Oh wait, you’re serious 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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https://m.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-college-and-other-facts-about-Jews-at-American-colleges-437701

3. Yale is the most-Jewish Ivy, but Cornell has the most total Jews

Yale University’s undergrad student body is 27 percent Jewish (1,500 Jewish undergrads out of 5,477 total). Percentage-wise, it narrowly beats out its Ivy League rival Harvard University, which is 25 percent Jewish (1,675 out of 6,694 undergrads). But Cornell University and Columbia University both have more Jews in total — 3,000 and 1,800, respectively.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40751801)

There are a legion of secular Jews who are culturally Jewish but don’t answer in the affirmative to the religious question.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40751873)

Fuck my ass

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40751924)

Lots of Cuban Lehmans etc.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40752541)

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i.e. a southern kid w/ 1500/4.0 has a much higher chance than the same from NYC/LA for example

If you're an asian from a major city you better get some highass scores or write a killer essay

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there were some strongly southern whites from like MS, Oklahoma etc that probably wouldn't have gotten in w/ the same stats if they were froM CA or MA/NY

And one of them was like the staunchest Southern Republican chick who even had the thickest accent as well

the most fucked over from AA are really the coastal azns & jews/whites

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40752382)

Well, yes, if you are a White or Asian with a 1400/3.8, you are not getting in.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40751836)

"YALE IS A RACIST INSTITUTION" *receives 400 point SAT boost and free tuition*

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40751846)

Damages

No way

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40752008)

nothing will change...

i would guess that this ruling is basically just a way to try to convince white proles that the gop is on their side and will help them

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#40754701)

Justice department sues Yale University over admissions practices

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603203&forum_id=2#41080535)