SALT LAKE CITY, UT: June 16, 2026 – Today, Do No Harm released an analysis by David Puelz, PhD, a professor at the University of Austin (UATX), on Texas medical-school admissions and called for the University of Texas System to stop concealing admissions data from the academic years since Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA).
In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in SFFA that racial preferences in college admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Following that decision, Do No Harm sent public-records requests to every public medical school in the country — including the seven in the University of Texas System — requesting post-SFFA admissions data. That information should be publicly available and is necessary to verify whether these institutions have ended illegal racial preferences. Regrettably, the seven medical schools in the UT System declined to provide the requested data.
“The silence from the University of Texas System is deafening,” said Ian Kingsbury, Sr. Director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine. “Dr. Puelz’s in-depth analysis shows that before the Students for Fair Admissions decision, at least some Texas medical schools were heavily discriminating against white and Asian applicants, raising questions about whether race-conscious practices have continued or were rebranded to allow racial favoritism to persist. If they’re in compliance with federal law, why are UT medical schools stonewalling our public-records requests and refusing to provide post-SFFA admissions data? We will pursue every legal, legislative, and public-advocacy recourse until full compliance with the Supreme Court’s ruling is achieved nationwide.”
Click here to read the report.
David Puelz’s analysis examines pre-SFFA admissions at three Texas schools: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, UT Austin Dell Medical School, and UT Southwestern Medical School. His findings indicate that, before SFFA, each school preferred black applicants over academically identical white and Asian applicants.
For example, at UT Southwestern, black applicants had 21 times the odds of acceptance compared to white applicants with similar academic credentials.
Do No Harm’s Skirting SCOTUS Part III report showed that, at Texas Tech’s school of medicine, average MCAT scores among accepted students continued to show significant racial disparities after SFFA. Overall, it appears that admissions practices at the institution barely changed after the Supreme Court’s ruling against race-conscious admissions. Whether a similar scenario is playing out at UT Austin Dell and UT Southwestern — and the other UT medical schools — is information to which the public and lawmakers are entitled.
The seven medical schools in the UT System are:
To read Dr. Puelz’s analysis, click here.
Do No Harm, established in April 2022, has rapidly gained recognition and made significant strides in its mission to safeguard healthcare from ideological threats. It has over 50,000 members, including doctors, nurses, physicians, and concerned citizens across all 50 states and 14 countries.
