Ask HN: Is it legal for a company to restrict an internship to certain races?
&gt; for a large tech company in San Francisco<p>The company is easily identifiable just by searching for the text you quoted, so you&#x27;re not really hiding which company you&#x27;re working for (if that&#x27;s your intention).<p>As to whether this kind of discrimination is legal: I&#x27;d assume a company that size has a huge legal department, and any corporate program they run has been vetted by their lawyers. So there&#x27;s probably some loophole in the law that makes it legal.<p>By the way, offering the internship only to second-year students would be age discrimination (it effectively excludes almost everyone older than 40, who are a protected class under federal law), and offering it only to full-time college students would be discriminating against people who can&#x27;t afford to attend college full-time (e.g., because they have families they need to support).