The Trump administration announced Thursday that it has opened an investigation into a “major medical school in California” for discriminatory raced-based admissions, with the Washington Free Beacon reporting the school in question is UCLA.

The probe comes nearly a year after whistleblowers told the Free Beacon that the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA held Black and Hispanic applicants to a lower standard than white and Asian applicants.

The state of California banned affirmative action in college admissions in 1996. However, whistleblowers alleged that UCLA’s med school admissions office under anesthesiologist Jennifer Lucero “frequently pushed through unqualified minority candidates to diversity the school,” the Free Beach reported.

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