We previously discussed a disturbing account of how medical students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) were subjected to a bizarre class where one of the university’s “activists-in-residence” showered them with anti-Semitic postings and racist rhetoric. Now, the Justice Department has found that the university engaged in systemic racial discrimination in the admission of medical students. Given the university’s history, it is hardly surprising, but it remains unclear how the university will respond to the findings.
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division announced that the medical school violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by giving preferential treatment to black and Hispanic applicants. The investigation followed the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which barred race-based admissions.
In the DOJ’s “Findings” letter, black and Hispanic admits in some years averaged MCAT scores in the 66th to 72nd percentile, while Asian and white students averaged scores in the mid-to-high 80th percentiles.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon indicated that the Justice Department found that UCLA medical school leadership discussed how to achieve “diversity goals” and other strategies after the Supreme Court ruling.
After the historic ruling in the Harvard and North Carolina cases barring the use of racial criteria in admissions, administrators and academics admitted what they had long denied: that race was having a major role in admissions.
In anticipation of the rulings, many schools, including the California system, eliminated standardized testing. Without objective scores, there is less ability to identify the use of non-scholastic criteria for admissions. By eliminating or devaluing standardized testing, admissions offices can use the more subjective essays to achieve the same race-based results.
I wrote about how administrators were already preparing to use essays as an indirect way to achieve the same identifications and preferences in admissions. The essay “prompts” encourage students to effectively self-identify by discussing incidents where they faced discrimination. The shift to the essays would allow the removal of high-scoring students while elevating those with lower scores. That prediction was quickly confirmed, as top candidates were rejected based on their essays, while schools used essays to flag their backgrounds.
Faculty and administrators at UCLA and other schools remain adamant in using race-based admissions. They simply justify discrimination as equity and diversity. This is the same school that required medical students to sit through a raving lecture from “a formerly unhoused and incarcerated poverty scholar who prefers to keep their face covered in public.”
In her two-hour lecture, Gray-Garcia dismissed modern medicine as “white science” and told the medical students to engage in a prayer to “mama Earth.” Students were expected to pray and affirm that “Mama Earth was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped or played.”
The scene captured the erosion of academic integrity at schools like UCLA as woke agendas overwhelm the curriculum. After yielding to that agenda for years and allegedly struggling to evade the Supreme Court decision, UCLA remains a hardened silo of woke priorities and policies. It will take the threat of the most serious consequences to dislodge this academic administration. In the end, they may yield or draw out the conflict in the hope that a new Democratic administration will allow them to return to racially discriminatory admissions.
Just another thing you need to look at when you research seeing a new physician. If you find they are a recent UCLA grad from med school or finished a residency there, it might be safer for you and your family to skip to the next name on your list.
It might also be interesting for state medical boards to start looking at the mortality figures of UCLA grads in their state.
There are a lot of things that go into making a good physician but having the essential intelligence is a key part of the foundation necessary to function at a high level in a rapidly evolving occupation. The American public may pay dearly in the years to came from inadequate care and poorer quality research.
I assume that there is a civil rights crime involved in the defiance of the order. If so, send in the marshals to round up the upper-level and admissions personnel, charge them and see what sticks. It would be a very good experience for them – money well spent🤣
The donor to this facility David Geffen is Jewish. So honor him by discriminating against his religion. It’s why I stopped donating to UCLA Law some years ago. His brother Mitch was a friend in my class.
OT: Yet another day with Turley ignoring the Supreme Court’s emergency intervention to reinstate a congressional map blocked by a lower court as racially discriminatory under constitutional (not VRA grounds) and never reversed. And they did this by ignoring the Purcell principle that they created in 2006.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/court-clears-way-for-alabama-to-use-congressional-map-blocked-by-lower-court-as-racially-discrim/
He ignores this because it goes against everything he has previously said about the Roberts Court.
Do actual Americans know that UCLA and the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center constitute a foreign country?
Many actual Americans might be surprised to visit and make that surprising discovery.
Undoubtedly some patients go there for treatment expecting America and Americans.
UCLA – University of California for Little Asians
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AI Overview
Asians constitute roughly 35% to 40% of the undergraduate student population at UCLA, making them one of the largest demographic groups on campus. When broken down by specific, detailed demographics, the Asian population (including international students from Asia) is a major part of the student body, with Chinese students representing a significant portion of the international, and often domestic, contingent.
Perhaps today’s college administrators could take a lesson from their Athletic Directors from 60 plus years ago. So instead of “Faculty and administrators at UCLA and other schools remain adamant in using race-based admissions.”, the long ago Athletic Directors focused on sports ability to produce better teams. So alternatively to achieving some mystical and dubious level of diversity, the universities could become academically competitive by striving for the best students.
Have you noticed that over time nothing in the news ever gets better? The last clear memories I have of anything revolve around Viet Nam, the bloodshed, Agent Orange, My Lai, helicopters leaving South Vietnamese hanging on with rope, to avoid facing hell from the North for betrayal.
Now, it is all about hating Trump. It’s as though Trump is our 2026 version of Viet Nam. Gotta hate that boy or there’s no reason to live, you know?
One thing I like about the Old Boy. Iran will no longer pose an imminent threat to nuke anybody/somebody when he’s thru. I’ll pay 50 bucks a gallon in support of that goal.
I easily forget the damage they cause. Ask the Japanese. And nukes today are so much more lethal.
“The news” is a business, and there’s more competition now than ever before. In order to maintain or grow the number of readers/viewers they earn money on through advertising, they’re forced to either publish more sensational stories, or cultivate a loyal target audience by pandering to their opinions. It’s difficult to survive as an a fact-based, un-biased new organization because if you try, you effectively disenchant most of the politically biased hard core news fanatics who really prefer to live in an echo chamber, as well as the low attention span portion of the public, thus losing the advertising money that goes with them.
There still are ‘good’ news stories to be found, and in many (certainly not all) ways our world continues to improve, but the good news stories aren’t as compelling and financially rewarding to promote as the gloom and doom ones are.
Trump embarrasses himself and our country yet again.
In his address at the state banquet in China he said, “Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United States all combined. That’s a pretty big statement.”
Well, I’m glad he didn’t get up there and say something REALLY stupid like, “No chop suey for me and youey!”
I’m surprised he didn’t mention the great General Tso for being a military mastermind and chicken dish
“One of my big generals once told tell me, ‘Sir, General Tso’s Four Seasons Chop Suey campaign was the most brilliant in history.'”
That’s not diplomacy.
That’s a man trying to sound informed and accidentally sounding like a confused tourist reading a placemat.
You poor losers have nothing. Love it
WINNING!
Why does that embarrass you?
I want the Justice department to SUE the NBA for racial discrimination.
ALL Teams should be only allowed 13% blacks!
Blacks are in 100% of movies and TV shows.
There is a communist party political officer on every set.
every notice that 90% of commericals are now minorities? The majority are BANNED!
Completely Illegal!
End Federal Aid and Loan backing to students their colleges
Allow a FREE Market to decide what is worth keeping!
And ACTUALLY arrest THE Racist Democrts! Fine the public union pensions as WELL!
Federal Aid and Loans are unconstitutional.
Congress has the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and general welfare.
This quote sums up what appears to be happening at the Med School.
“ bought, sold, pimped or played”
The Marxist’s in medicine have progressed into leadership positions and are now creating the future “Struggle” they wish to impose upon the students with their ideologically based view of medicine and science.
Wanting a diverse student body is allowed. Lowering the reliance on standardized tests is allowed. Using racial proxies is allowed. Republicans use political party an zip code as racial proxies when gerrymandering blacks out of politics. They can’t cry about racial proxies in admissions. The DoJ “report” is a nothing burger.
Sounds like you are a highly educated white woman. who prefers to live in a racist world.
Using race as a means of admission is racism.
A. Racial gerrymandering was done by Democrats. B. I want a competent doctor not a diverse one.
LOL
Democrats RACISTS for 250 Years! They want failure!
Using “racial proxies” is not allowed, Sal.
#WompWomp
Asteroid to Impact Earth.
Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.
– Rush Limbaugh
Now you know why the American Founders and the Greeks who created restricted-vote republican democracy did not allow women to vote.
Oh, and the American fertility rate fell further into its “death spiral” in the most recent statistics—Americans are vanishing.
@Sally, you already have a “diverse” student body. In this year’s freshman class at US Universities and Colleges, 41% of them were male. Proud of yourself?
Socialized medicine administered by DEI quacks. No thanks. I don’t want to die in a queue like in Canada or Britain.
This post demonstrates the level of ignorance we have today with respect to how our government functions and the role of the Supreme Court. There can never be an adverse demonstration of defiance or dissent with a Supreme Court decision, because the States agreed unanimously to abide by the decisions of the court once they agreed to the adjudication process and jurisdiction, the adjudicators, and what constituted a decision by the court. Agreeing to abide by a decision precludes any dissent and disagreement with the decision, and as all persons and entities within a State are bound by the agreements of the State, and under the responsibility of the State, no disagreement can be made by the citizens of a State individually!
Your post is a bit too rambling and your point too subtle for me to divine. I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not. (“There can never be dissent with a SC decision” – I see them on the news all the time.) Are you agreeing with the post that woke academia is off the rails, or are you trying to say that the post , or the current DOJ is fundamentally misunderstanding how our government/Judicial system is supposed to work?
Pull Federal funding!
UCLA Med School administrators gone off their rocker.
Or off their meds…
Come On Man! Laws you disagree with are only required to be followed by Conservatives BUT good leftist progressive socialist Dems are obligated to ignore those laws they disagree with because they are generated by supremacists, colonialists, and enslavers. The Left is clear that SCOTUS is full of deplorables and thus RESISTANCE by TRUE BLUE WACK JOBS by any means is justified! Change only comes to Democracy when Socialists and Communists force it on the weak and unenlightened! We need more speeches by Schumer calling for political ‘action’ by his low IQ cadre of nut cases.
No one wants to go to an incompetent doctors regardless of race. Only the best and brightest should become doctors, regardless of race.
Best, brightest and MORAL? Best and brightest without morality might run a chop shop for money implant human genes into rats.
UCLA’s morgue was selling body parts on the black market. Seriously…
We’re in hades now. The only curiosity is looking around and seeing what’s in hades. I think it self destructs every 1000 years.
Horrible place…