Chinanews.com, October 9th, according to the US Chinese website, on the 8th local time, the US Department of Justice sued Yale University, accusing the school of "illegal discrimination against Asian and white applicants" when enrolling students.
According to reports, the U.S. Department of Justice stated that Yale University violated Chapter VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by "discrimination based on race and ethnic origin."
The Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice, Eric Dreiband, said: “All applicants for university should expect and understand that they will be judged based on their personality, talents and achievements, not their skin color. "
Yale did not immediately comment on the lawsuit.
According to previous investigations by the Department of Justice, when Asian and white students apply to Yale University, they have only one-tenth to one-quarter chance of admission compared with African-American students with comparable academic performance.
This investigation originated in 2016, when U.S. federal agencies received reports accusing Yale University, Brown University, and Dartmouth College of "suspicion of racial discrimination" in admissions.
The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to the Yale University Lawyers in August 2020. The letter listed details of the school’s admissions process and requested that race be used as one of the admission criteria during the admissions process.
Yale University denied the accusation of discrimination at the time, calling it "baseless" and stated that it had cooperated with the government's investigation.