Higher Education's Biggest Scam Is Legacy Admissions Policies

Of course not. That is exactly the point of a policy-you don’t need to have conversations about individual cases when the policy will nudge it the right way at the aggregate level.

FYI, while I don’t know many admissions people, I do know endowment people, and particularly during the 2008 recession and aftermath they discussed the various funding sources for university budgets, including the importance of full pay students.