For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Stanford University will require applicants to submit standardized test scores in its fall 2026 admissions process. It will also continue legacy ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

According to the university’s student newspaper, the Daily Trojan, 14% of USC’s 2023-24 applicants had legacy backgrounds, though the number of legacy admissions has not been released yet.

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.

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.

PALO ALTO, Calif. — On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1780. The bill will ban legacy admissions at private universities in California that benefit from or receive state funding.

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.

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 ...