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DOJ Joins Lawsuit Claiming UCLA’s Medical School Uses Racial Discrimination in Admissions

The university previously said it collects race and ethnicity data on its applicants ‘for statistical purposes only and they are not used for admission.’
DOJ Joins Lawsuit Claiming UCLA’s Medical School Uses Racial Discrimination in Admissions
Royce Hall on the UCLA campus on June 22, 2025. Joyce Kuo/The Epoch Times
Troy Myers
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The U.S. Department of Justice is joining a lawsuit claiming race is used as a factor in admissions at the University of California Los Angeles’ (UCLA) medical school, the agency said Wednesday.

The legal action was brought by several groups, including Students for Fair Admissions and a medical advocacy group called Do No Harm, alleging the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA continues using race in its admission practices and policies, according to a news release.
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