Would ending legacy admissions improve elite college access?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : It's just affirmative action for the rich," said Richard Kahlenberg, a nonresident scholar at Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.
52% : As the tremors of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down affirmative action continue to reverberate across higher education, legacy admits are poised to become the next domino to fall.
49% : Wesleyan is interested in similar transfer partnerships with community colleges, which Roth said more selective institutions should consider in lieu of affirmative action.
49% : "On one level, of course they're right that we don't provide genuine equal opportunity in public education ... on the other hand, you don't want to let colleges off the hook."
47% : The report, which used data from 1999 to 2015, also found that the "Ivy Plus" colleges -- the eight Ivy League institutions along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Chicago and Duke University -- gave preference to legacy applicants and frequently ranked those who attended private high schools higher on nonacademic scores.

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