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DOJ Flags Racial Preference; Stanford Removes DEI Label

5/16/2026

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DOJ disclosed Yale Medicine used proxies, making Black applicants 29 times more likely than Asian candidates to get invitations, violating Supreme Court ban.
DOJ found UCLA’s medical school admitted Black and Hispanic applicants scoring in the 66th-72nd percentile, as White, Asian applicants scored in 80th percentile.
Stanford School of Medicine removed DEI language and renamed its Office of Diversity in Medical Education to Community Health, after critics labeled medicine “white science.”

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DOJ disclosed Yale Medicine used proxies, making Black applicants 29 times more likely than Asian candidates to get invitations, violating Supreme Court ban.
DOJ found UCLA’s medical school admitted Black and Hispanic applicants scoring in the 66th-72nd percentile, as White, Asian applicants scored in 80th percentile.
Stanford School of Medicine removed DEI language and renamed its Office of Diversity in Medical Education to Community Health, after critics labeled medicine “white science.”