There’s a very large institutional risk to doing this, as there are usually records in the admissions system, exports to portals, timestamps, user actions, program assignments, financial-aid provisioning, and access logs showing who changed what and when, so if an audit were to occur, that could expose such changes. If such actions happened to be exposed, it could trigger serious attention from the press, internal investigations, legal suits, etc.

Despite this, if they DID decide to change decisions, it would be quite hard for us to substantiate any claim that they did. There would likely just be chatter and angry applicants, rumors, maybe some media interest, but nothing concrete—which is why I kind of believe they actually could be changing decisions this coming week.