The Justice Department announced findings that Yale School of Medicine violated the Supreme Court’s ban on race-conscious admissions by relying on racial proxies to select applicants. DOJ said admissions data showed Black and Hispanic candidates had substantially higher admission chances than White or Asian applicants with comparable test scores. The agency did not specify the immediate consequences it expects, but the action deepens DOJ’s medical-school focus in the wake of enforcement priorities tied to the 2023 Supreme Court decision. The DOJ also reiterated that institutions must comply with federal antidiscrimination law. Yale did not offer a detailed public response in the DOJ release, and the case arrives amid reports of other pending DOJ probes into medical school admissions practices at Stanford, Ohio State, and UC San Diego. For higher education leaders, the development sharpens the compliance risk around how admissions and recruiting data are analyzed, especially when demographic indicators can function as proxies even without explicit reference to race.