The idea that an applicant should get a leg up because of where his or her parents went to school runs counter to American ...

California has become the fourth state to ban legacy admissions. The move comes after the SCOTUS decision to limit ...

California just became the fifth state to ban legacy admissions—and only the second to ban them at private schools in ...

In an effort to encourage merit-based admissions, California passed a legislation outlawing legacy admissions at both public ...

California universities can no longer favor the children of alumni in the admissions process starting next year. Gov. Gavin ...

More and more states are souring on legacy preferences, which often give wealthier applicants a leg up in college admissions.

Private, nonprofit colleges in California will be banned from giving preference in the admissions process to applicants ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning legacy admissions and donor preferences at private and nonprofit ...

California’s private nonprofit colleges will no longer be able grant students an admissions advantage if their parents ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 1780, which prohibits legacy & donor preferences in the admissions ...

California is banning legacy admissions at private colleges and universities, ensuring that some of the country’s most ...

and the University of California system stopped doing so in 1998, two years after California voters banned race-conscious admissions through a statewide ballot measure.