Yale University discriminated against Asian-American applicants, DOJ investigation says

Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applications, according to a Justice Department investigation.

Department officials said on Thursday that Yale "racially balances its classes" and uses race as a determining factor throughout the admissions process.

Yale denied the allegations, saying in a statement that the allegations were "meritless" and "hasty", according to the Associated Press.

"Yale's race discrimination imposes undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavoured applicants, including in particular Asian American and White applicants," Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband, who heads the department's civil rights division, wrote in a letter to the college's attorneys, according to AP.

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