As blog readers will know, the Trump administration has challenged med school admissions at UCLA and UC-San Diego.* It appears that Yale - the subject of a similar challenge - is seeking a deal. From the NY Times:
The Trump administration is conducting a far-reaching investigation into whether Yale University’s admissions practices violate anti-discrimination laws, prompting one of the country’s most elite schools to pursue settlement talks with the government, according to three people briefed on the matter. The Justice Department... accused Yale’s medical school of giving illegal preferential treatment to Black and Hispanic applicants. But the department’s review is reaching beyond the medical school, the people said, encompassing undergraduate and law school admissions as well.
...Yale’s quick moves to try to reach an agreement with the government suggest it does not want a high-profile, drawn-out fight similar to the one involving Harvard University. The status of a potential agreement was unclear on Friday, but Yale recently offered a proposal to the government, according to the three people briefed on the matter. The people, who have ties to the Trump administration or to Yale, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks. On Friday, Yale referred to a statement it issued last month that said its medical school was “confident in the rigorous admissions process” and admitted students showed “exceptional academic achievement and personal commitment.” The Justice Department and the White House did not respond to requests for comment...
...Yale has turned to McGuireWoods, a law firm that the University of Virginia used last year to negotiate a settlement with the Justice Department that included no financial penalties.
...At least in public, Yale has been something of an outlier among elite institutions in its relationship with the second Trump administration. It did not attract the type of research funding cuts that the administration used to pressure Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern and the University of Pennsylvania into settlements last year...
Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/us/politics/yale-trump-administration-admissions-race.html.
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