My understanding for the reason of getting rid of the the Legacy Scholarship is the sheer number of students losing their scholarship due to the minimum GPA requirement. This seems to occur during their freshman year and most of these students end up leaving Howard University for their state schools due to affordability issues. The endowments of HU is small to begin with, are shrinking in the face of current economic realities. Of course this impacts HU 4-year graduation rates and defeats the main purpose for these scholarships in the first place.