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.

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

Trump’s critics and some allies question his silence on admissions policies that give applicants a boost because of their ...

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 ...

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 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.

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

At Princeton University, legacy applicants are four times more likely to gain admission. Legacy status is also considered at the University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, Duke, and Brown.

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 ...