DOJ Finds UC San Diego School of Medicine Discriminates Based on Race in Admissions

The Justice Department’s 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.

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.

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One way the DOJ claims the San Diego Med’s admissions staff acquired this information was by using answers to “hardship” application questions to determine which applicants were underrepresented minorities in medicine (URM), thereby ensuring more URMs received interviews.

The DOJ found the result of San Diego Med’s manipulation: white and Asian applicants were denied admission in favor of lower-credentialed black and Hispanic applicants.

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