New Report Says Major School System Hid Admissions Data Defying Supreme Court
A nonprofit released a report Tuesday concluding that the University of Texas system continues to discriminate based on race in defiance of a recent Supreme Court ruling.
A nonprofit released a report Tuesday showing that the University of Texas system may continue to discriminate based on race in defiance of a recent Supreme Court ruling.
Do No Harm released admissions analysis report of seven medical schools in the university system to raise concerns about its practices regarding racial preferences. A previous report by the organization had found that the schools’ acceptance rates barely changed across racial groups after the Court’s landmark 2023 ruling on affirmative action — and that testing data continued to show racial discrepancies.
David Puelz, a statistician and professor at the University of Austin, authored Do No Harm’s Tuesday report titled, “Racial Preferences At Texas Medical Schools.” Puelz analyzed data from three schools prior to the court’s ruling which showed that applicants in the University of Texas System schools were penalized or rewarded on the basis of race, according to the report.
At UT Southwestern, Puelz observed that black applicants had “21 times the odds of acceptance compared to white applicants with similar academic credentials,” his report found.
The study contains statistical analysis of admission data from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Medical School during the 2021 and 2022 admission cycles.
In the Court’s 2023 Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard decision, a six-justice majority ruled that race-based college admissions violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Do No Harm’s report stated that its findings “document the kind of race-based preferences that was meant to address and establish a baseline for assessing whether admissions practice changed after the decision.”
“The silence from the University of Texas System is deafening. Dr. Puelz’s in-depth analysis shows that before the Students for Fair Admissions decision, Texas medical schools were heavily discriminating against white and Asian applicants, raising questions about whether race-conscious practices have continued or were rebranded to allow racial favoritism to persist,” Ian Kingsbury, Sr. Director of Do Not Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine, said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.