Stanford will forgo Cal Grants to keep legacy admissions considerations in place despite California’s new statewide ban.

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Stanford University will require applicants to submit standardized test ...

Stanford University has confirmed its admissions policies for fall 2026 will continue considering legacy status, a decision ...

New admissions criteria announced a continuation of legacy consideration and a reinstatement of the standardized testing ...

In 2019, 16.2% of Stanford University’s accepted applicants were children whose parents attended Stanford, while 1.5% of all accepted applicants had donated to the university.

Student members have rallied behind AB 1780 while calling for the University to amend admissions policies on its own. “The California Assembly made its position clear,” said Ryan Cieslikowski ...

More than 13 percent of students admitted to USC, Santa Clara University and Stanford in 2022 were related to alumni, according to numbers the schools had to report under past legislation from Ting.

At Stanford, about 15% of students who enrolled last fall were either the children of alumni or donors. At Santa Clara University, the number is higher, sitting at 17.7%.

Share This Families of graduating students stay seated while practicing social distancing during the graduation commencement ceremony at Stanford University in Palo Alto on June 13, 2021.

The landscape of college admissions is currently undergoing seismic shifts in ways we haven’t seen since the widespread adoption of affirmative-action policies in the 1970s. In 2023, the Supreme ...