The Justice Department on Thursday revealed its findings of a yearlong investigation of admissions policies and practices at Yale School of Medicine, saying its leadership selected applicants based on race — giving priority to black and Hispanic students over white or Asian ones. The Justice Department said, “Yale’s documents show that they studied how to use racial proxies to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ban on using race in selecting students. Yale’s admissions data shows that black and Hispanic students have a much higher chance of admission to Yale than white or Asian students with similar test scores.”“The investigation revealed that, in general, black and Hispanic applicants were admitted with consistently lower educational attainment than their white and Asian counterparts. “These facts support the Department’s conclusion that Yale violated the law by intentionally discriminating on the basis of race in its admissions, a clear violation of federal law,” the Department said.“Yale continues its race-based admissions program despite a clear mandate from the Supreme Court and the public for reform.” Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division Harmeet K. Dhillon said. “This Department will continue to shine a light on these illegal practices, and demand that institutions of higher education comply with federal law.”In a six-page letter describing his findings, Dhillon said Yale was “using holistic reviews to uncover the race of applicants through direct and indirect means and then using them to conduct interviews that enable the committee to learn the race and ethnicity of applicants.” Dhillon’s letter states that applicant-level data provided by Yale shows “virtually no difference in Yale admissions racial preferences” before and after the Supreme Court decision. The lack of change in admissions results reflects “a deliberate failure to comply with that decision,” he wrote.Last week, the Justice Department issued similar findings for the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. In March, the department also began investigating the admissions policies for medical schools at Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego. And in February, it sued Harvard University, demanding more detailed admissions data, as The New York Times reported.Yale did not release a statement on the claim, but the NYT noted that many in academia have argued that the Trump administration is misinterpreting the decision, and that the Supreme Court’s decision allows schools to consider race when considering factors beyond test scores, such as character or personal development.