Top California medical school discriminated against white, Asian applicants: DOJ

New York Post ^ | September 22, 2026 | Josh Koehn

[grundle]

Federal investigators are accusing University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) officials of illegally discriminating against white and Asian applicants, giving black candidates almost 13 times better odds of admission than white students with similar qualifications in 2025, the California Post has learned.

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[ansel12]

It is hard to have confidence in the professionals we need today, when we know that the best are screened out and the mediocre and incompetent chosen to fill the ranks of those professions.

[not in the club]

Maybe if the feds would lift the residency caps, we would not have such competition for limited slots and this issue would go away. (Yes these are rose colored glasses; why do you ask?)

[Diogenesis]

They should be fired,
tried for every death they created,
and jailed.

The school should be punished, and closed.

[MayflowerMadam]

I believe that exact discrimination has been going on for a couple of decades, and not just in CA.

[Revel]

Make the university repay any federal grant money.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Turns out that the Asians have been hiding their privilege.

They are CaucASIANs.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I thought this was settled in the UC Regents v Bakke case nearly 50 years ago.

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (438 U.S. 265, 1978) is the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case on affirmative action in medical school admissions.

Allan Bakke, a white engineer and former Marine in his 30s, applied twice (1973 and 1974) to the UC Davis School of Medicine and was rejected both times. The school reserved 16 of 100 seats for “disadvantaged” minority applicants (Black, Hispanic, Asian American, and Native American). Bakke had higher undergraduate GPA and MCAT scores than some students admitted through the special program. He sued, arguing the quota violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Ruling

The Court issued a fractured 5-4 decision on June 28, 1978 (argued October 12, 1977). Justice Lewis Powell provided the controlling opinion:

• The rigid 16-seat quota was unconstitutional. It treated race as the sole deciding factor and prevented non-minority applicants from competing for those seats.
• Race could be considered as one “plus” factor among many in a holistic review to achieve educational diversity, which Powell treated as a compelling interest. He pointed to Harvard’s approach as a model.
• Bakke was ordered admitted. He enrolled, graduated in 1982, and later practiced as an anesthesiologist in Minnesota.

Four justices would have struck down the program solely under Title VI without reaching the constitutional question. Four others would have upheld the Davis program as a valid remedy for past discrimination.

Significance

The decision banned explicit racial quotas in university admissions but allowed race-conscious policies if they were narrowly tailored and did not use race as a decisive standalone criterion. It set the framework later applied (and then limited) in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003). The 2023 Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard/UNC decision later prohibited race-based admissions in higher education.

The case is often cited as the first major “reverse discrimination” challenge to race-based preferences in professional school admissions.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Sad thing is that no matter how good the outcome, there will always be a shadow over their heads. People are going to think "is this a good doctor or is this a DEI doctor?".

Purely from self interest, it would be wise to avoid black doctors in California.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Terrible because Asian fingers are smaller.

[gildafarrell]

Stop all federal funding.

[sten]

i literally just said this on another thread.