Another point is that those three schools don’t (didn’t) accept 100% of applicants. So applications to the schools may have dropped at double the number of the reduced freshmen enrollment.
It would also cause the schools to lower their application standards just to get the enrollment they report.
That will be damage that could take a decade to fix.
“That will be damage that could take a decade to fix.“
It will take at least a gereration, and the schools might not survive. Its like turning an aircraft carrier. There’s a lot of mass.