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UCSD Medical School Under Fire | Wilmington News
The Justice Department is accusing UC San Diego’s medical school of illegal racial discrimination in admissions, claiming they favored Black and Hispanic applicants over White and Asian ones—even when the latter were more qualified—potentially costing the school nearly a billion dollars in federal funding. The probe, launched in March, centers on a controversial admissions strategy that used personal essays about hardship as a covert way to assess race, leading to Black applicants being admitted at more than double the rate of White applicants. Internal documents reveal a post-Supreme Court…
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