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Justice Department zeroes in on UCLA for alleged illegal DEI admissions as elite school crackdown expands

The Justice Department has concluded that UCLA’s medical school engaged in illegal race-based discrimination in admissions, alleging the school favored Black and Hispanic applicants in violation of federal law.The finding follows a yearlong federal investigation and marks the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s push to crack down on diversity-based admissions practices across U.S. universities. A lawsuit filed by medical advocacy group Do No Harm prompted the Justice Department's investigation into UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine."UCLA’s admissions process has been focused o...