Stanford University will no longer accept California's state-funded student aid, allowing it to maintain legacy and ...

All eight Ivy League schools use such admissions policies, which give applicants a boost because of their wealth or family ...

The University invited students to voice their opinions on legacy admissions in a Zoom forum Tuesday evening. All eight students who spoke at the forum expressed opposition to legacy admissions, ...

The origin of legacy admissions stems from an antisemitic backlash to rising Jewish enrollment within elite higher education institutions in the 1920s.

The movement to scrap legacy admissions in colleges across the country has been gaining steam ever since the Supreme Court ruled that race can no longer be considered when accepting students ...

I’ve been critiquing the calls to end legacy college admissions for about two decades — clearly to no avail, given California’s new law prohibiting private higher education institutions from ...

As colleges wrestle with fairness, equity, and social mobility, Harvard University’s legacy admissions policy remains a relic. Favoring alumni children undermines the meritocracy Harvard clai… ...

Legacy admissions banned at California universities The governor said admission into universities should be based on merit, skill and hard work.

Assembly Bill 1780 will prohibit an independent institution of higher education from providing a legacy preference or donor preference in admissions to an applicant as part of the regular or early ...