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DOJ: Yale Guilty Of ‘Ongoing’ Discrimination Against Asian American, White Applicants

Tim Pearce
DOJ: Yale Guilty Of ‘Ongoing’ Discrimination Against Asian American, White Applicants
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The Department of Justice requested that Yale University stop using data on race in its application process after a federal investigation found that the university heavily discriminates against Asian American and white applicants.

Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband, who heads the DOJ’s office on civil rights, sent a letter to Washington, D.C., attorney Peter Spivack on Thursday outlining the findings of a two-year investigation into Yale’s admissions process and threatening a lawsuit if nothing is done to correct the university’s decades-old discriminatory tactics.

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