The Department of Justice has filed a civil lawsuit against Yale University for discriminating against Asian-American and white students in its admissions practice.
The suit claims that Yale has violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by illegally using race as a criteria for admission to the university, excluding qualified students because of their race.
“The complaint also alleges that Yale injures applicants and students because Yale’s race discrimination relies upon and reinforces damaging race-based stereotypes, including in particular such stereotypes against Yale’s racially-favored applicants. And, the complaint alleges that Yale engages in racial balancing by, among other things, keeping the annual percentage of African-American admitted applicants to within one percentage point of the previous year’s admitted class as reflected in U.S. Department of Education data. The complaint alleges similar racial balancing about Asian-American applicants,” the DoJ said in a statement.