Alrqiq v. New York University

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Doris Ling-Cohan, J.), entered February 20, 2014, which granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly dismissed the complaint wherein plaintiff alleges that he was subjected to discrimination on account of his race, religion, and national origin when he was not admitted to the Orthodontics Residency Program at New York University. Although “couched in terms of unlawful discrimination,” the complaint is “a challenge to a university’s academic and administrative decision [ ] and thus is barred…