Not comparable. I don't have strong feelings on legacy admissions one way or the other, BUT they do have a high graduate success rate, and establishing a family tradition of attendance is good for the institution.
The class warfare nonsense about legacies reached its apex with the idea that GWB is an idiot who only entered Yale as a legacy. He may have entered Yale as a legacy, but he didn't get a Harvard MBA as one -- something the "Bush is an idiot" crowd conveniently ignore.
If Ivy League attendance is based solely on money and family connections, why couldn't JFK Jr. get into Harvard? Hmmm?
I didn’t say that it was.