Trump administration probes 15 medical schools over admissions policy

WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it had opened civil rights investigations into 15 medical schools examining potential race discrimination over their alleged use of race in admissions.

The department said in a statement the probes would examine whether the schools, each of which receives millions of dollars in federal funding, are complying with a Supreme Court decision that barred race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities. The statement did not specify which schools are under investigation.

The Justice Department in two recent probes into medical schools at Yale University and the University of California, Los Angeles, found their admissions ‌practices were biased in favor of Black and Hispanic applicants.

(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Ryan Patrick Jones;Editing by David Ljunggren)