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

The University invited students to voice their opinions on legacy admissions in a Zoom forum Tuesday evening. All eight students who spoke at the forum expressed opposition to legacy admissions, ...

The origin of legacy admissions stems from an antisemitic backlash to rising Jewish enrollment within elite higher education institutions in the 1920s.

The movement to scrap legacy admissions in colleges across the country has been gaining steam ever since the Supreme Court ruled that race can no longer be considered when accepting students ...

The end of preferential admissions for legacy and donor students is met with both celebration and concern from members of the Stanford community.

I’ve been critiquing the calls to end legacy college admissions for about two decades — clearly to no avail, given California’s new law prohibiting private higher education institutions from ...

As colleges wrestle with fairness, equity, and social mobility, Harvard University’s legacy admissions policy remains a relic. Favoring alumni children undermines the meritocracy Harvard clai… ...

Public campuses in California don’t practice legacy admissions. And state voters in 1996 changed California’s constitution to forbid public schools from using race as a factor in admissions.

Legacy admissions banned at California universities The governor said admission into universities should be based on merit, skill and hard work.

Assembly Bill 1780 will prohibit an independent institution of higher education from providing a legacy preference or donor preference in admissions to an applicant as part of the regular or early ...