Stanford’s exit from California’s state-funded aid lets it continue legacy admissions, bypassing a new law limiting ...

As President Donald Trump attempts to reshape college admissions, he's promising a new era of fairness, with an emphasis on ...

New admissions criteria announced a continuation of legacy consideration and a reinstatement of the standardized testing ...

Stanford will forgo Cal Grants to keep legacy admissions considerations in place despite California’s new statewide ban.

Legacy admissions is increasingly under fire by critics who contend that it caters to children of privilege and harms the equity mission of colleges. The case against legacy admissions is that it ...

Legacy college admission is an advantage given at birth, in which the children of a school’s alumni receive special consideration in the college admissions rat race. But after the US Supreme ...

Despite mounting pressure to abandon legacy considerations in the admissions process, few elite schools have yet done so— 14% of Yale’s incoming class had a legacy affiliation, an increase ...

Legacy admissions are thus supposed to help universities admit more low- and middle-income students and more students of color. However, Johns Hopkins has demonstrated that this may not be the case.

Roughly 500 universities consider legacy status when evaluating applicants, including more than half of the nation’s 100 most ...

Stanford University will continue considering legacy status in admissions through fall 2026, despite California’s ban on ...