Exclusive: UCLA Law Discriminated Against White and Asian Students, DOJ Says

A Department of Justice investigation found that the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law has illegally discriminated based on race in admissions, the Daily Caller News Foundation first learned.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is alleging that UCLA Law discriminated against white and Asian students in granting admission to its 2023, 2024 and 2025 incoming classes. UCLA Law’s alleged discriminatory conduct violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and also the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which prohibited racial discrimination in admissions, according to the Department.

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The Department’s probe found that UCLA Law’s application includes personal statements and essay prompts intended to extract information about race. Additionally, UCLA Law’s admissions staff told prospective applicants how to reveal their race in these sections of the application during certain race-based recruitment efforts, according to the DOJ.

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Additionally, the Department found that UCLA Law rejected white and Asian applicants who had the same LSAT scores as admitted black and Hispanic applicants. Moreover, half of the total admitted black applicants had LSAT scores that were at or below 90% of the admitted white applicants in 2024 and 2025 combined, the DOJ’s investigation found.

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