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.
OT, this is a pattern. Governor Hochul says Republicans are not welcome in NY State. So leave. They do, then she begs them to come back b/c she needs their money for her and Mamdani’s socialist dreams. Lots o’ luck w/ that.
AOC says Amazon is not welcome, so they don’t build a center there that would’ve employed thousands.
Mamdani says Ken Griffin is a bad guy, so he’s rethinking his multi-billion dollar midtown construction project that would have created 6,000 construction jobs and 15,000 permanent jobs in midtown.
Illinois Governor Pritzger says anyone who disagrees with his policies should leave Illinois. They do, and take their money with them.
Seattle major Katie Wilson says billionairs are not needed, so “like, Bye” and they leave and take their money with them. Starbucks is on its way out. Tech entrepreneur Jesse Proudman is on his way out, both saying Seattle and Washington are villifying businesses that create jobs and support the tax base.
These people are, on the surface, acting contrary to their interests. They must realize that in the US, people and companies have the freedom to move to a different state and take their money there. So, are they just dunces, or playing some super-clever 4-D chess game where they benefit but everyone else suffers, and the everyone-else who suffers keeps voting for them anyway?
Donald J. Trump accomplished what he called “the main goal” of his trip to China on Thursday by inspecting the printing plant where his $60 Trump Bibles are printed.
Accompanied by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump said he wanted “to be sure that the Chinese printed the lyrics to ‘God Bless the USA’ correctly, because those are Jesus’s most important words.”
President Xi praised his American counterpart, telling him, “You have created more Chinese jobs than I have.”
Trump cancelled plans to visit the factory that manufactures gold Trump Mobile phones after learning that it did not exist.
Even though a few Psalms are written in Mandarin, all the bibles contain the historically factual quote from Jesus Christ himself, blessing the USA.
No other bible does this.
Donald’s favorite part of the Trump Bible is the Old Testicle, which tells the story of the Immaculate Deception.
When leftist TDS sufferers try to be funny, they invariably come off as merely stupid and childish. They try and copy the Babylon Bee but they fail miserably.
UCLA press release: Martin Luther King famously dreamed that his children would one day live in a nation where they would not be judged by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin. We are following in Dr. King’s footsteps and bringing that noble dream to reality.
When a reporter pointed out that they got the Martin Luther King quote wrong, in fact backwards, the UCLA spokesman said, “same thing” and then followed up with, “You are assuming truth matters. It doesn’t. Only the activist’s goals matter. By any means necessary, and all that, you know, you know, the thing.”
In anticipation of the rulings, many schools, including the California system, eliminated standardized testing.
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UCLA Law School, like ALL ABA law schools, uses the LSAT as the driving force in admissions. UCLA Law is going to be a top 10 ABA law school soon, and will overtake Cal Berkeley within 5-10 years in the USNWR Rankings. UCLA is already the hardest UC school in the system to gain admission to, with a 9% admission rate (Berkeley= 11%). WHY is just the Medical School playing this game????
Sigh. Just sigh. This is what happens hen we put children in charge of things (*cough*AOC*cough*). I sure hope it’s an object lesson.