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

Stanford University has confirmed its admissions policies for fall 2026 will continue considering legacy status, a decision ...

With three weeks to go before California's ban on legacy and donor admissions takes effect at private universities that ...

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

Set to take effect Sept. 1, 2025, Assembly Bill 1780 bans so-called legacy admissions at private campuses that benefit from state funding, such as the Cal Grants used by thousands of students.

Ending legacy preferences in college admissions also has some bipartisan support in Congress. “There’s a strong consensus from every political point of view," Stemler says.

President Trump’s most recent executive order wades into a debate over how elite colleges should weigh grades and test scores ...

Ending legacy admissions may be defensible in the service of equity, but it’s neither necessary nor sufficient to increase lower-income students’ access to higher education.

The topic of legacy admissions is particularly relevant at Penn, where 16 percent of undergraduate students are considered legacy students. In 2017, The New York Times published an interactive data ...

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