President Trump’s DOJ Finds Yale Medical School Gave Black Applicants 29 Times Better Odds Than Asian Applicants With the Same Credentials

President Trump’s Department of Justice just dropped a hammer on one of America’s most elite medical schools.

After a year-long investigation, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division concluded that Yale School of Medicine discriminated against White and Asian applicants by deliberately favoring Black and Hispanic applicants with comparable academic credentials.

The most jaw-dropping number in the findings: a Black applicant had as much as 29 times higher odds of getting an interview than an equally qualified Asian applicant.

That is not a typo. Twenty-nine times.

The DOJ says Yale violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, as interpreted by the Supreme Court’s landmark 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, for the incoming classes of 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Three straight years of illegal racial preferences after the highest court in the land told them to stop.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon did not mince words about what DOJ found.

The Justice Department laid out the core findings this way:

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said it completed a year-long investigation into the admissions policies and practices at Yale School of Medicine. DOJ said Yale’s documents showed leadership intentionally selected applicants based on race, and that Yale studied how to use racial proxies to circumvent the Supreme Court’s prohibition on using race to select students.

DOJ also said Yale’s own admissions data showed Black and Hispanic students had a much higher chance of admission than White or Asian students with the same test scores. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said Yale continued its race-based admissions program despite the Supreme Court and the public’s clear mandate for reform.

DOJ said the investigation showed Black and Hispanic applicants were generally admitted with consistently lower academic qualifications than White and Asian counterparts.

That is the Trump DOJ moving from rhetoric to enforcement.

The left can dress racial preferences up in academic jargon all it wants, but the DOJ’s case is simple: elite institutions cannot keep sorting applicants by skin color after the Supreme Court told them to stop.

Harmeet Dhillon highlighted the DOJ finding that a Black Yale Medical School applicant was as much as 29 times more likely to get an interview than an Asian applicant with similar academic credentials.

— Harmeet Dhillon (@AAGDhillon) May 14, 2026

The actual findings letter goes even deeper than the press release.

Yale documents, according to DOJ, did not show a clean break after the Supreme Court’s Harvard decision. They showed the school looking for ways to keep the same admissions outcome alive under new labels.

The Justice Department put the evidence this way in its formal findings letter:

DOJ said Yale’s internal policies, public literature, and leadership email correspondence consistently demonstrated an intent to use race in admissions decisions despite the Harvard ruling. The letter said a Yale Admissions Cycle Committee Retreat presentation discussed increasing the number of “Minority Physicians,” drew a roadmap for using racial proxies to circumvent Harvard’s prohibition, and pointed to race-neutral admissions examples that could increase underrepresented-minority admission rates.

The Department said Yale used holistic review to uncover and then use applicants’ race through direct and indirect means. It also said interviews enabled the committee to know applicants’ race and ethnicity, that race preferences elevated Black and Hispanic applicants, and that highly qualified White, Asian, and other students were denied admission on the basis of race.

Admissions data confirmed what the documents suggested.

For the 2025 incoming class, DOJ said Black and Hispanic admitted students had median MCAT percentiles of 95 and 94, while Asian and White admitted students were at the 100th percentile.

DOJ said the same pattern appeared in the 2023 and 2024 classes.

Then came the number that should make every parent, student, and taxpayer stop cold.

Based on Yale’s applicant-level data, DOJ said Yale’s use of race resulted in a Black applicant having as much as 29 times higher odds of getting an interview than an equally strong Asian applicant with similar academic credentials.

That is discrimination, plain and simple.

President Trump’s DOJ is saying the quiet part out loud: the so-called equity machine did not disappear after the Supreme Court ruling. It kept operating, and elite schools appear to have assumed nobody would force them to stop.

A resurfaced political clip about Yale and admissions added another layer to the debate as the DOJ findings spread online.

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) May 14, 2026

DOJ is seeking a voluntary resolution agreement with Yale to bring admissions practices into legal compliance.

If Yale does not voluntarily comply, the Department said it may pursue enforcement.

That is exactly how this should work: give the institution a chance to fix it, and if it refuses, bring the full weight of federal civil rights enforcement.

The Supreme Court settled this question in 2023. President Trump’s DOJ is now making sure that ruling actually means something.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at 100 Percent Fed Up. View the original article here.