“A group that benefits heavily from their hook wants to repeal the hooks of others so that they can get more? It is too greedy! It would be more noble for them to advocate the repealing of all hooks.”
Actually, they want to repeal their own hook for their kids. Are they opposed to all hooks, or just the hooks of others? I don’t imagine that hook for football is going away soon.
Personally, I don’t think Legacy is a big hook. They have to apply ED and Penn gives Legacy to the kids of grad students too. Also, the legacy admits have higher avg. stats than other admits.
Honestly, if they are going to make one admissions change, I would like to see Penn increase the percent of Asian students admitted if they are deserving. (I am not Asian, btw).
I do think that the administration’s goal is to keep legacy, but continue to reduce its weighting in the process, so they defacto virtually get rid of it, without enraging the contributing Alumni base. Believing they have Legacy makes many Alums feel closer to their alma mater, and that is a good thing.