Regarding your editorial “The New College Race Preferences” (Aug. 11): The Justice Department’s finding that Duke Law continues to discriminate—evidenced by higher scores among rejected applicants from some racial or ethnic groups than among accepted applicants from others—isn’t unique to one elite law school.
My organization, Do No Harm, submitted public-records requests to all 94 public medical schools seeking post-Students for Fair Admissions data on race, GPA, MCAT scores and admission decisions. Most schools either didn’t respond, stonewalled the request or demanded excessive fees to process the request. Among the 23 schools that responded by the time we published our findings, 13 showed that the average MCAT score of rejected Asian or white applicants exceeded the average MCAT score of accepted black applicants.
Read more at the Wall Street Journal.