‘Highly qualified White, Asian, and other students were denied admission’: DOJ accuses UCLA of discrimination

The Justice Department found Wednesday that the medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles, illegally considered race in admissions as the Trump administration ramps up scrutiny of colleges’ processes for selecting students.

The finding escalates the Trump administration’s ongoing standoff with UCLA, which has focused mostly on the main campus’s response to allegations of antisemitic harassment.

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA said in a written...