In 2019, the college admissions scandal made headlines. An investigation exposed fifty of the country’s most influential and wealthy families for paying millions in bribes to secure spots for their ...

Stanford University has prompted renewed debate over legacy admissions after announcing it will no longer participate in California’s state-funded student aid programmes. The move allows the ...

Following the Supreme Court’s strike down of affirmative action earlier this year, questions have been raised over the continuation of legacy admissions — who currently make up around 15 percent of ...

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Legislation that would ban colleges from giving an advantage to the relatives of alumni has met very different fates in two states recently. Last month Maryland enacted a legacy admission ban that ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to end legacy preferences in college admissions. The college admissions process is under new scrutiny after the Supreme Court ended race-based affirmative action.

Time could finally be up for legacy admissions, thanks to a bipartisan bill being considered on Capitol Hill. “The fact that your parents or grandparents happened to have a sheepskin [diploma] from a ...

Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) have introduced new legislation that aims to ban the practice of considering applicants' relationship to school alumni and donors in college ...

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 ...