Alternet America- The Trump Justice Department has a new target: Yale Medical School, which it is accusing of discriminating against white and Asian applicants by admitting too many Black and Hispanic ones. The investigation, which took a year and produced no actual victims, concluded that Yale defied the Supreme Court’s 2023 affirmative action ban by continuing to weigh race in admissions. Yale said it was confident in its process.
This is part of a broader administration campaign against medical schools that have tried to diversify the physician workforce. The specific numbers, per the DOJ: Black and Hispanic applicants had slightly lower median MCAT scores than white and Asian applicants in the classes of 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Yale’s response was that its admissions process is holistic and that test scores are an imperfect measure of a person’s potential as a physician. The DOJ called this a cover story, which is what you do when you have already decided what you’re going to find before you start looking.
It is worth noting that the DOJ did not announce any investigation into the well-documented underrepresentation of rural Americans in medical schools, or the legacy admissions practices that have been quietly favoring the children of donors for decades. But those aren’t the gaps that animate Trump’s Civil Rights Division.
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