Ucla Medical School Hit With Class-action Lawsuit For Allegedly Still Using Race-based Admissions Process

The University of California, Los Angeles, aesculapian schoolhouse was deed pinch a class-action suit connected Thursday for reportedly still employing a race-based admissions process contempt a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that race-based programs for assemblage admissions are unconstitutional, Fox News Digital has learned. 

"UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine has continually treated nan Students for Fair Admissions ruling arsenic a recommendation, alternatively than a binding rule handed down by nan highest tribunal successful nan land," Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chair of Do No Harm, told Fox News Digital. "Do No Harm is fighting for each nan students who person been racially discriminated against by UCLA nether nan guise of governmental progress. All aesculapian schools must abide by nan rule of nan onshore and prioritize merit, not immutable characteristics, successful admissions."

Do No Harm, a nonprofit statement dedicated to fighting against "radical progressive ideology" successful nan wellness industry, and nonprofit ineligible defense statement Students for Fair Admissions revenge nan class-action suit Thursday day connected behalf of applicants who allegedly faced "intentional favoritism connected nan ground of title and ethnicity successful nan admissions process" astatine UCLA's aesculapian school, according to nan lawsuit.

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Royce Hall connected nan field of UCLA. (iStock)

"The numbers show that UCLA is engaged successful intentional group balancing. Between 2020 and 2023, nan percent of achromatic and Asian applicants to Geffen was consistently astir 73% of nan full applicant pool. Yet, nan percent of matriculants to Geffen who are achromatic and Asian plummeted: 65.7% successful 2020, 57.1% successful 2021, 57.8% successful 2022, and 53.7% successful 2023," nan suit alleges. 

UCLA's aesculapian schoolhouse is highly competitory pinch an acceptance complaint of astir 3.3%, according to U.S. News and World Report's assemblage rankings.

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The suit names a bevy of defendants, ranging from nan aesculapian schoolhouse to nan governing committee of nan University of California's assemblage strategy to nan subordinate dean of admissions astatine nan aesculapian school. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to UCLA and nan David Geffen School of Medicine astatine UCLA connected Thursday day for remark connected nan suit but did not instantly person replies.

The Supreme Court ruled successful 2023 that it is unconstitutional to usage race-based affirmative action programs. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The suit alleges that nan aesculapian school's admissions process violates nan Supreme Court's ruling successful nan 2023 case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The nation's highest tribunal ruled that it is unconstitutional to usage race-based affirmative action programs successful assemblage admissions processes arsenic it violates nan Equal Protection Clause of nan Fourteenth Amendment. 

President Donald Trump additionally signed an executive bid connected Jan. 21, 1 time aft his inauguration, that restored "merit-based opportunity" and charged national agencies pinch enforcing civilian authorities laws and "combat" DEI practices. 

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The suit alleges that whistleblowers "with first-hand knowledge" of nan school's dean of admissions rolled retired an admissions process scheme that requires Geffen "applicants to taxable responses that are intended to let nan Committee to glean nan applicant’s race, which nan aesculapian schoolhouse later confirms via interviews."

The admittance committee, according to nan suit, additionally "routinely and openly talk title (and group proxies) and usage title arsenic a facet to make admittance decisions."

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The David Geffen School of Medicine astatine UCLA is already facing investigation by nan Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights complete allegations it discriminates against applicants connected nan ground of race, colour aliases nationalist origin.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

"This investigation reflects nan Administration’s committedness to grant nan difficult work, excellence, and individual accomplishment of each students successful nan pipeline for nan aesculapian occupation – not conscionable those of peculiar group backgrounds," Anthony Archeval, acting head of nan Office for Civil Rights astatine HHS, said successful a property merchandise successful March announcing nan investigation.

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The HHS investigation was sparked by aggregate whistleblowers successful nan admissions agency claiming that nan schoolhouse group little standards for Black and Latino applicants compared to White and Asian counterparts, nan Washington Free Beacon reported this month.