When a decision satisfies someone, most of the time, this person will not care exactly how the result was reached. For example, if you are applying to law school and are accepted, you will have little interest in finding what element in your cover letter was decisive in winning you the coveted spot. But this is not the case when someone is negatively impacted by an adverse decision. Cases like the lawsuit against Harvard University’s admission process and its alleged discrimination against Asian-American applicants show how important the intricacies of the decision-making process of an institution, the factors evaluated, their weight and their compounding, can become when people feel uncertain, suspicious of, cheated or dis-satisfied by the outcome.