Make Med School White Again

So here's what the DOJ is claiming UCSF did.

The DOJ looked at UCSF's incoming class for 2023 to 2025 and came back with a number it really, really wants you to keep repeating.

The DOJ says that among applicants with the same MCAT score, the same GPA, and the same socioeconomic background, UCSF was 4.6 times more likely to admit a Hispanic applicant than a white one, and 12.6 times more likely to admit a Black applicant.

The DOJ's Civil Rights Division says grades and test scores have, quote, "taken a backseat to race." Of course, this is the same Civil Rights Division that can't seem to bother to do a goddamn thing about voting rights.

They're busy people.

Just busy with other shit, I suppose.

Anyway, you have to remember that these are the DOJ's numbers.

They were run by the DOJ, and UCSF says that the DOJ is getting it wrong.

And by the way, UCSF is the fifth University of California school the DOJ has hit with one of these too much DEI findings.

Trump clearly has it in for California, and why wouldn't he? They're a bunch of godless blue state heathens out there.

Now, one thing the DOJ is going after is the application essay, even though the Supreme Court has already said that schools can consider an applicant's essay about how race affected their life.

So do you remember the Students for Fair Admissions case? It's the 2023 case where the Supreme Court ended affirmative action at Harvard and UNC, and basically colleges and universities across the country.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion, and near the very end, he included a line that admissions offices have been relying on ever since.

He wrote that nothing in the opinion stops a school from considering an applicant's own discussion of how race affected their life, through discrimination, through inspiration, whatever.

As long as the school is judging the person, their character, and what they bring to the school, it's fine.

Roberts also warned schools that they can't use the application essay to sneak back in what the court had just banned: affirmative action.

So the essay is legal, but treating the essay like a race checkbox is illegal.

But the Trump Justice Department is treating the existence of a race-related prompt in the essay as evidence of discrimination.

One of the DOJ's complaints about UCSF's medical school is that its applications ask students to identify and discuss their race.

Discussing how race shaped your life is the thing Roberts said schools could consider.

And once an essay prompt inviting students to write about their own lives counts as evidence of discrimination, the one door that Roberts left open gets slammed shut.