The Department of Justice accused Yale of discriminating against Asian-Americans and white applicants in its admissions -- but that likely won't immediately impact college admissions. Here's why:
The Department of Justice accused Yale University of discriminating against Asian-Americans and white applicants in its admissions process Thursday.
The letter comes amid a slew of legal battles over the role of race in college admissions. Lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill over the schools’ admissions practices are winding their way through the court system and could make their way to the Supreme Court.
The school’s President, Peter Salovey, called the agency’s allegation “baseless,” in a statement. He said that the school has been cooperating with DOJ, but that the agency “concluded its investigation before reviewing and receiving all the information it has requested.” “It’s difficult to tell why people got in or didn’t get in,” he said. Typically, we expect transparency from public or public facing institutions, he said, “but here the Supreme Court flips that.” Instead of allowing schools to assign points or other clear value to particular criteria, the law requires that schools evaluate candidates holistically and share little about the weight they place on various factors, he said.
That framing, Coleman said, concludes “as a premise for the litigation that test scores and grades equal merit and we know definitively that’s not true. The whole notion of holistic review is about contextualization and the intersection of factors to make judgement.”
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