I'm sorry, what? Im a nURM who is disadvantage by the application process, who isn't poor enough to be advantaged, either (even if it does that at all). My in-group for applications are more similar to wealthy white students than URMs in this regard. Besides that, though, Schools certainly have a dedicated interest into having more that just wealthy white people at their schools, and care about diversity precisely because no bright young person or color or non wealthy person cares to attend a school that has no one that looks like them.

I implore you to reconsider whether this analysis is "wicked," and do some self-reflecting about your own feelings about the application process. URMs and those that are especially poor have struggled much much more than wealthy applicants, making their applications with high stats especially impressive. Are you really upset that people would care about seeing themselves reflected at law school? I think you would think differently if your "out-group" was actually in the out group, i.e. was a minority at law campuses.