Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian and white applicants in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Justice Department said Thursday.
The agency …
Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian and white applicants in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Justice Department said Thursday. The agency said a two-year investigation into the Ivy League school found that Asian and white applicants have “one-tenth to one-fourth” the chance of being admitted as African American applicants with the same credentials. Officials formally levied the charges in a letter to Yale lawyers Thursday, asserting that the school “rejects scores of Asian American and white applicants each year based on their race, whom it would otherwise admit.” “There is no such thing as a nice form of race discrimination,” Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband said in a statement. “Yale’s race discrimination imposes undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular Asian American and White applicants.
