December 17, 2004

Federal Civil-Rights Officials Investigate Race-Conscious Admissions

By PETER SCHMIDT

The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint that the University of Virginia discriminates against white applicants for undergraduate admission, and has been asked to look into similar allegations involving North Carolina State University's undergraduate program, the University of Maryland at Baltimore's School of Medicine, and the law schools at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary.

The investigation of Virginia's

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