My opinion on this whole thing is that whether legacy admissions or minorities, people who do badly academically, as evidenced by SAT/ACT/GPA should be denied r

My opinion on this whole thing is that whether legacy admissions or minorities, people who do badly academically, as evidenced by SAT/ACT/GPA should be denied regardless of legacy/minority status. So if they can only admit 1000 students, the the list of applicants must be sorted by SAT/ACT/GPA first. Then student essays which should not identify the student's economic status or class and ethnic backgrounds or any identifiers such as their names having been removed from the essay, should be graded and sorted then. At this point, they have the top candidates without considering any individually biasing information. Now, they can use protected group status such as race and gender as well as legacy admission status, but not for additional sorting, only as a tie-breaker. So if 500 all have perfect scores, 500 have 9/10 on essay and perfect everything else and 500 have 9/10 on essay and one of SAT,ACT,GPA then the first 500 are automatically accepted , and legacy/minority status scoring would be applied for the rest without humans looking at individual identifiers or legacy/minority status. So a legacy/minority person of perfect everything except essay and 9/10 SAT score would be ahead of a non-minority/non-legacy person with perfect everything except essay. Essentially, I am against both legacy and minority status compensating for lack of academic accomplishment but I am not against either factors being used as conditions of last resort. I am fine with harvard accepting all legacy white male students that all scored perfectly on essays,SAT,ACT and GPA.pure meritocracy is a joke but so is having anything trump someone's achievements.