The effects on the absolute number of applicants might be counteracting, but the distribution of applicants is not, which is why it would be so useful to see th

The effects on the absolute number of applicants might be counteracting, but the distribution of applicants is not, which is why it would be so useful to see the demographics of the applicant pool. That said, the SCOTUS decision alone doesn’t explain why Harvard would be affected differently than Yale. Whatever the affect is, Yale has to follow the same laws. Perhaps I should’ve left that hypothesis out.