Editorial and corrections policy
How a fact gets onto this site, how it stays current, and what happens when one is wrong.
The rule every college page follows
Every college-specific fact on this site — a test policy, a published score range, a tuition figure, an application deadline — traces to a source web address and the date someone verified it against that source. Both are shown on the college's own page. This is not a footnote convention; it is enforced at the data layer. A college fact is only shown once a rules-table row for it exists and is explicitly marked verified — there is no code path in this application that displays an estimated or inferred college-specific number as though it were a fact.
Where the facts originally came from
The current catalogue was built from the United States Department of Education's own College Scorecard dataset, a federal, publicly published source. Every row carries that dataset's publication date as its verification date and the federal government's own URL as its source. Application deadlines, where shown, come from each institution's own admissions page, checked individually — the Scorecard dataset does not publish deadlines, so those are never inferred from it.
What "verified" means, precisely
A verified fact means it traces to a named, dated, external source — not that a staff member has personally read every one of the catalogue's colleges' admissions pages by hand. Facts sourced from a large federal dataset and facts checked individually against a college's own page are both labeled verified, because both satisfy the same underlying commitment: nothing shown is invented, and everything shown states where it came from and when.
How a fact gets corrected
Corrections happen at the source: a fact is updated by re-checking it against its cited source and updating both the value and the verification date together, never one without the other. A deadline or price a college has since changed will not silently drift out of date on this site without a corresponding update to its verification date — an old verification date is itself a signal that a fact may need rechecking, not a claim that it is still current.
The tooling that adds application deadlines to this site refuses, automatically, to publish a deadline that has already passed relative to the day it was checked — the most common and most damaging kind of mistake in this dataset, since a missed deadline is a missed application. A rejected import means nothing goes live, not that a bad date goes live and gets caught later.
If you find something wrong
Email support@uniappguide.com with the college and the specific fact you believe is incorrect. This is the same channel described on the Contact page, and it is monitored by a real person, not a ticket queue.
If you disagree with a recommendation, not a fact
A band (Reach, Target, Likely) is a computed result, not a fact about a college — see how a band is actually calculated for exactly what goes into it. If you have a full report and disagree with what it recommends, you can request a human review of that specific recommendation directly from your account; every report ships with that option built in, not as a workaround.