The U.S. Department of Justice withdrew a lawsuit last week against Yale University over how it accepts students.In October 2020, the department accused the school in New Haven, Connecticut of making it too hard for Asian-American and white American students to be accepted.The lawsuit said Yale uses race as a "determinative factor" in hundreds of admissions decisions each year.That term means race was considered a main reason for accepting or denying students.The case resulted from a legal action brought in 2016 by the Asian American Coalition for Education.The organization condemned the Justice Department's sudden move on Wednesday, calling the dismissal "baseless."Colleges and universities in the U.S. say they make an effort to seek out and admit qualified students from different backgrounds.The decisions are not based on grades and test scores alone.That means they consider where a student is from, what kind of high school they attended and what kind of experiences they had in life before college.These considerations include the student's race and citizenship.
