Justice Department Finds Yale Illegally Discriminates Against Asians and Whites in Undergraduate Admissions in Violation of Federal Civil-Rights Laws

The Department of Justice today notified Yale University of its findings that Yale illegally discriminates against Asian American and white applicants in its undergraduate admissions process in violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The findings are the result of a two-year investigation in response to a complaint by Asian American groups concerning Yale’s conduct.   

"There is no such thing as a nice form of race discrimination,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil Rights Division. "Unlawfully dividing Americans into racial and ethnic blocs fosters stereotypes, bitterness, and division. It is past time for American institutions to recognize that all people should be treated with decency and respect and without unlawful regard to the color of their skin. In 1890, Frederick Douglass explained that the ‘business of government is to hold its broad shield over all and to see that every American citizen is alike and equally protected in his civil and personal rights.’ The Department of Justice agrees and will continue to fight for the civil rights of all people throughout our nation.” 

As a condition of receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, Yale expressly agrees to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a cornerstone civil-rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance.

The Department of Justice found Yale discriminates based on race and national origin in its undergraduate admissions process, and that race is the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year. For the great majority of applicants, Asian Americans and whites have only one-tenth to one-fourth of the likelihood of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials. Yale rejects scores of Asian American and white applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit. 

Although the Supreme Court has held that colleges receiving federal funds may consider applicants’ race in certain limited circumstances as one of a number of factors, the Department of Justice found Yale’s use of race is anything but limited. Yale uses race at multiple steps of its admissions process resulting in a multiplied effect of race on an applicant’s likelihood of admission, and Yale racially balances its classes.

The Department of Justice has demanded Yale agree not to use race or national origin in its upcoming 2020-2021 undergraduate admissions cycle, and, if Yale proposes to consider race or national origin in future admissions cycles, it must first submit to the Department of Justice a plan demonstrating its proposal is narrowly tailored as required by law, including by identifying a date for the end of race discrimination. 

Want those federal funds? You gotta be fair you stinking powder blue uber-liberals.

well this certainly wont make national news...

They need to do this to every college and university in America.

1 minute ago, TEW said:

They need to do this to every college and university in America.

I was thinking the same.  You know this isn't even close to an isolated incident 

Good ruling. 

Does Harvard recognize Elizabeth Warren as a white now?

Finally! Racial justice for white people trying to attend Ivy League schools. 

Yea that's why I didn't get in. 

Aren't Asians basically the equivalent of white males in the crazy leftist oppression Olympics hierarchy?

8 hours ago, paco said:

Does Harvard recognize Elizabeth Warren as a white now?

No no - VanHam can show you the proof of Indianocity.

7 hours ago, NOTW said:

Finally! Racial justice for white people trying to attend Ivy League schools. 

Well, poor white people anyway.

13 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

Well, poor white people anyway.

That would be an affirmative action I could support.  Take race out of it and use socioeconomic factors to help lift up those who would otherwise not have the opportunity.  

 

Guess what.  You'll probably still get your diversity AND you'll have a system that is supported instead of building resentment.  

I bet everyone who posts here would have gotten into Yale if there was no affirmative action.

6 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

I bet everyone who posts here would have gotten into Yale if there was no affirmative action.

So  - my youngest child applied to all the Ivy League schools.  He had a perfect 2400 SAT score, lettered in two sports throughout his HS career and was the product of a white middle class family living in a suburban area.

He didn't get a sniff from any of those schools.

Just sayin'

1 minute ago, sameaglesfan said:

Middle class family living in a suburban area.

Yale lets in a lot of undergrads, but this is where you went wrong.  They want people who are going to write them giant checks, but they also want racial diversity.  That’s where they run into trouble - it’s not possible to have both in America.

1 minute ago, Dave Moss said:

Yale lets in a lot of undergrads, but this is where you went wrong.  They want people who are going to write them giant checks, but they also want racial diversity.  That’s where they run into trouble - it’s not possible to have both in America.

This is exactly the sticking point - you are correct Sir.

18 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

I bet everyone who posts here would have gotten into Yale if there was no affirmative action.

I went to a private university and graduated with honors.....

 

...but no, I would not have.  My verbal on my SAT's was too low.  F'n Bucknell said no  

3 minutes ago, paco said:

I went to a private university and graduated with honors.....

 

...but no, I would not have.  My verbal on my SAT's was too low.  F'n Bucknell said no  

Ok, I’ll be careful not to use any big words in my posts.

 

(my verbal score was low too)

36 minutes ago, paco said:

That would be an affirmative action I could support.  Take race out of it and use socioeconomic factors to help lift up those who would otherwise not have the opportunity.  

 

Guess what.  You'll probably still get your diversity AND you'll have a system that is supported instead of building resentment.  

preach it brotha !

4 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

Ok, I’ll be careful not to use any big words in my posts.

 

(my verbal score was low too)

 

 

I openly admit to being completely left brained.  In college and in my career I have to work hard to get words down on paper that read good.

 

 

 

49 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

I bet everyone who posts here would have gotten into Yale if there was no affirmative action.

I went to Bama, but Yale was my safety school.

37 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

Yale lets in a lot of undergrads, but this is where you went wrong.  They want people who are going to write them giant checks, but they also want racial diversity.  That’s where they run into trouble - it’s not possible to have both in America.

What? Black people cant be rich? 

7 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said:

What? Black people cant be rich? 

 

1 hour ago, Dave Moss said:

I bet everyone who posts here would have gotten into Yale if there was no affirmative action.

I turn down Yale... on the reg!