Details have surfaced showing that a lot of Texas lawmakers and other prominent figures attempted to help students into the University of Texas at Austin. But whether they succeeded is another question.

Following an open-records request, the Dallas Morning News examined the letters after what is known as the “Kroll report” confirmed political efforts to help students get in.

So here’s how it looks at the moment. On the one hand, the News reports:

The investigation highlighted 73 students from 2009 to 2014 who entered the state’s premier campus despite relatively low high school grade averages (less than 2.9 on the 4.0 scale) and SAT scores of less than 1100. Such marks would usually have precluded their admission.

On the other hand, there’s no “there” there, according to former U.S. senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, because so few students were actually admitted as a result of such letters. She pointed out that 73 students over five years “represented only about 15 students a year in a class of 7,000,” the News reported.

But then, Kevin Eltife, a state senator, says he wrote “hundreds of letters.” The 73 students who weren’t qualified but who were accepted were the subject of 250 letters, the News says.