Blue State College Allegedly Using Explicit Racial Quotas In Admissions

Young America’s Foundation (YAF) on Thursday filed a civil rights complaint against Gettysburg College over its allegedly illegal admissions policy.

Gettysburg’s senior assistant director of admissions presented a plan at a student senate meeting on March 31 detailing the school’s policy to admit “20% domestic students of color,” according to a presentation obtained by YAF and first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The college also aimed to admit 15% international students for its Fall 2025 incoming class.

“YAF respectfully requests that you investigate Gettysburg College’s admission policies and practices to ensure ‘the doctrine of equality,’ not ‘race consciousness,’ is in place and properly enforced, consistent with prevailing law,” YAF’s complaint filed with the Department of Education’s (ED’s) Philadelphia office reads.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

After the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that race could not be used as a factor for admission, Gettysburg President Bob Iuliano, in a campus-wide email, apparently described the decision by saying “the Supreme Court has profoundly undercut the ability of colleges and universities to educate today’s students most effectively,” according to YAF’s complaint.

Pursuant to the Court’s decision, the ED in February issued a directive reminding schools they are bound by civil rights laws, and noncompliance with the Court’s ruling was a violation of such laws. Several education organizations, including the American Association of University Professors, encouraged schools to “vigorously” disobey this order, saying that the process for revoking federal funding from schools over civil rights violations was lengthy and difficult. (RELATED: Education Department Opens Dozens Of Investigations Into Schools Over Alleged ‘Race-Exclusionary Practices’)

The Department of Justice recently launched investigations into several elite California universities due to concerns that their admissions policies violate federal civil rights law. UCLA, for instance, publicized its plan for racially gerrymandering its student body in a bid to increase “diversity” on campus, propping up methods such as using students, staff and alumni to personally reach out to minority students, hosting events for “underrepresented groups” and viewing applications in a “holistic” fashion instead of in separate segments. Other universities have mirrored this plan and face concerns they are illegally discriminating on the basis of race.

ED and Gettysburg College did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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