Berkeley Law has discriminated against white and Asian students in admissions, according to a joint investigation by the Justice Department and the Department of Education. It looks like, once again, a school tried to keep Affirmative Action in place without saying it outright.
DOJ quotes Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky in its Findings Letter:
“What colleges and universities will need to do after affirmative action is eliminated is find ways to achieve diversity that can’t be documented as violating the Constitution.”
Here are the median LSAT… https://t.co/D2FllMhVKZ pic.twitter.com/SSI6hMoNME
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FOX News breaks it down:
According to the DOJ’s analysis, Black applicants in 2025 had “5.8 times higher odds of admission than comparable white applicants.”
An analysis of LSAT scores for admitted students in 2024 and 2025 found that 37% of Black admitted applicants scored below 99% of admitted White applicants.
In addition, half of the school’s admitted Black applicants had LSAT scores “below 95% of the admitted white applicants.”
According to figures cited by the DOJ, median LSAT scores from 2021 through 2025 showed a persistent disparity between racial groups, with Black admits scoring around 165. Asian and White admits scored around 172, while Hispanic admits had median scores around 169.
From a DOJ press release:
Joint Investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Department of Education Finds U.C. Berkeley Law School Discriminates Based on Race in Admissions
The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced today joint investigative findings that the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley Law) deliberately discriminates against white and Asian students in its admissions process. Berkeley Law’s discriminatory conduct violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or color, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA), which banned race discrimination in higher education.
“Berkeley Law School’s deliberate efforts to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision in SFFA demonstrate a complete disregard for the rule of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Department will continue to aggressively pursue compliance from schools who attempt to racially manipulate their student bodies in violation of federal law.”
“Title VI is clear: no student should be advantaged or disadvantaged in admissions because of the color of their skin,” said U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey. “The Supreme Court made equally clear that universities cannot evade the law by finding new ways to make race a factor in admissions decisions. Today’s findings demonstrate that the Trump Administration will work to hold institutions accountable and ensure students are judged on their individual merit, not their race.”
The Department’s investigation found that post-SFFA, Berkeley Law uses race, essay prompts, and other tactics to further its admissions diversity goals. For instance, Berkeley’s application asked applicants to specify their racial identity, so that admitted students could be “grouped” with others of the same “primary identity” in class. In other words, Berkeley Law intentionally separates admitted students by race.
DOJ also released a findings letter, which you can read here.
This keeps being uncovered because the academic left knows that they own higher education, and despite what the laws say, they’re just doing what they want to do.
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