Yale has been accused of discrimination against Asian American and white applicants by the Department of Justice.
The DOJ findings have surfaced two years after the department had launched an investigation concerning the role the race factor plays in admission to the prestigious university.
According to the Department, Yale University has been favoring black students while discriminating against Asian American and white applicants.
As the Department stated, the discrimination taking place at the University is illegal and in violation of the federal civil rights law.
“Yale’s race discrimination imposes undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular Asian American and White applicants,” Eric Dreiband, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, claimed.
According to the findings concerning the University, “race is the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year” whereas Yale “rejects scores of Asian American and white applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit.”
As per the results of the investigation, the alleged underprivileged applicants have “only one-tenth to one-fourth of the likelihood of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials.”
Following the accusations, Yale has denied all allegations and insisted they are proud of their admissions practices.
“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,” they 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.
“We are proud of Yale’s admissions practices, and we will not change them on the basis of such a meritless, hasty accusation.”
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