If you read the article, a lot of the decline is from international applicants. Reading other articles, the drop is primarily about visa concerns for post-MBA

If you read the article, a lot of the decline is from international applicants. Reading other articles, the drop is primarily about visa concerns for post-MBA employment in the US, and who can blame them? My international classmates had a hell of a time getting work authorization even before our current political situation. This is WSJ clickbait, more or less, and you see why they do this because this topic always rouses the attention of the HN crowd :)