SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 The Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division announced Monday that it finds that the University of California San Diego School of Medicine discriminated based on race in its admissions process.<\/p>\n
The investigation found that San Diego Med manipulated applicant data to achieve greater racial diversity in student admissions by using racial proxies, said the DOJ. <\/p>\n
The DOJ states that this action violates Title VI, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, and the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA), which banned race discrimination in higher education.<\/p>\n
One way the DOJ claims the San Diego Med’s admissions staff acquired this information was by using answers to \u201chardship\u201d application questions to determine which applicants were underrepresented minorities in medicine (URM), thereby ensuring more URMs received interviews. <\/p>\n
The DOJ found the result of San Diego Med\u2019s manipulation: white and Asian applicants were denied admission in favor of lower-credentialed black and Hispanic applicants.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than rely on MCAT scores or GPA, San Diego Med\u2019s shadow application process unlawfully judged applicants for admission based on their race,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division. \u201cSan Diego Med\u2019s blatant efforts to prioritize race are illegal, and we will end these practices.\u201d<\/p>\n
The department says it will continue to monitor the school’s compliance with Title VI and will engage in settlement negotiations where a violation is found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 The Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division announced Monday that it finds that the University…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":948291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[73622,5229,1582,276,16956,381807,3549,381808,7264,332043,288075,36743,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-948290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-admissions","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-discrimination","tag-justice-departments-civil-rights-division","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-med","tag-sandiego","tag-school-of-medicine","tag-title-vi","tag-uc-san-diego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116954530215767683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}