Roughly 500 universities consider legacy status when evaluating applicants, including more than half of the nation’s 100 most ...

President Donald Trump is attempting to reshape college admissions according to his definition of merit, with an emphasis on ...

Johns Hopkins University reported an increase in first-generation and low-income students after it eliminated legacy admissions.

In 2018, Brown University students founded the Students for Educational Equity initiative and sponsored a referendum to end legacy admissions.

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law prohibiting the consideration of legacy and donor status in admissions decisions. The impact will be most felt at a small handful of private ...

California banned legacy status as a factor in college admissions in September, the largest state to do so yet. This follows the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn affirmative action in 2023, which ...

A new state law bans private colleges from considering an applicant’s ties to family members who are alumni or donors. California’s public universities don’t use legacy admissions.

Stanford law professor Rick Banks said the new law is well intended, as legacy admissions overwhelmingly favor white and affluent students, but he still opposes it.

Once again, the goal posts are being moved. Banning legacy admissions in the name of fairness ignores how this approach fails to correct a legacy of racial injustice.

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.