New York could become the fourth state to ban legacy admissions in the college application process, a practice that has long been criticized as favoring white or wealthy students based on their ...

Prospective students at New York University can likewise identify themselves as legacies on their applications, but it will not tip the scale. Less than 2% of the freshman class in fall 2021 were ...

At Cornell University, the issue became a flashpoint in 2018 when students, alongside advocates at other universities, organized a petition to demand an end to legacy admissions. A few years later ...

Share full article 37 Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Tony Luong for The New York Times By Vimal Patel July 26, 2023 ...