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Stanford will forgo Cal Grants to keep legacy admissions considerations in place despite California’s new statewide ban.
The highly selective university will forgo California financial aid for students to circumvent a new law aimed at curbing the ...
Stanford University has confirmed its admissions policies for fall 2026 will continue considering legacy status, a decision ...
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Stanford University will require applicants to submit standardized test ...
With three weeks to go before California's ban on legacy and donor admissions takes effect at private universities that ...
New admissions criteria announced a continuation of legacy consideration and a reinstatement of the standardized testing ...
Stanford University will require SAT or ACT scores for Fall 2026 admissions, ending its test-optional policy. The university ...
Student members have rallied behind AB 1780 while calling for the University to amend admissions policies on its own. “The California Assembly made its position clear,” said Ryan Cieslikowski ...
The landscape of college admissions is currently undergoing seismic shifts in ways we haven’t seen since the widespread adoption of affirmative-action policies in the 1970s. In 2023, the Supreme ...
Claremont McKenna College is one of the California private colleges that used legacy admissions in 2022 that will be affected by a new state law that will ban the practice that Gov. Gavin Newsom ...
Stanford University will continue considering legacy status in admissions through fall 2026, despite California’s ban on ...