From what I’ve read about this (and I said something similar somewhere in another thread… but I can’t find it due to the merging), anyone who thinks that this is going to give a boost to poor students and not to students with better access to resources is either lying to themselves (or us) or has never worked with poor students.
Each additional task expected by universities is one more burden for poor students.
If universities want to move to this type of app system, that is their prerogative (though I have an issue with public schools making the process more burdensome in general). But don’t frame it in terms of “helping the poor” when anyone who has ever actually worked with poor (or otherwise disadvantaged) students can see right through that. It’s almost insulting.