California Voice: Legacy admissions ban won’t help low-income students go to 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 considering applicants’ family connections to alumni or donors. (The state’s public universities already refrain from legacy admissions.) Maryland enacted a similar law, and Colorado, Virginia and Illinois have banned the practice at public institutions.

Although higher education advocacy groups have...