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

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.

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

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

Legacy students fell from 12.6% to 3.6% at Johns Hopkins six years after it ended legacy admissions in 2014, while Pell-eligible low-income students went up to 19.1% from 9%, university President ...

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 ...