How does elimination of objective admissions criteria do anything other than increase accusations of bias?

It eliminates the evidence of bias. No evidence, no crime.

For our Uni, it's about getting more numbers because they're scared of numbers falling due to massive tuition increases and the decrease in perception of the necessity of a college education. Source: work at a Uni.

Maybe universities in general have this problem but Harvard most certainly does not.

Accurate. Edited. Thank you.