Harvard University’s own research shows that Asian-Americans applying to the college faced a penalty in the admissions process, according to a lawsuit filed against the Ivy League school.

That forced their numbers lower than they would otherwise be, according to court documents released Friday. The lawsuit cites three reports by the university’s Office of Institutional Research in 2013 that found that while the number of Asian-American students admitted that year was 19 percent, it should have been 26 percent according to the school’s method of scoring for academic and extracurricular activities and would have been 43 percent if only academic qualifications counted.