A wrong deadline in an admissions dataset is not a data quality issue. It is a student who missed an application.
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ScrapeIt runs the collection as a managed service. You name the institution set or take the full member list; we build the pipeline, run it on the admissions calendar rather than a flat interval, and hand back CSV, JSON, Excel or a push into your warehouse with deadlines as rows, cycles on every field and changes as their own records.
Parsing failures are surfaced rather than defaulted. On this source a field that silently keeps last year's value is worse than one that is visibly missing, and we build it that way deliberately.
We collect institutional requirement data published for applicants. No applicant data of any kind is involved, and none would be collectable in any case. Everything in the dataset is publicly available - what any visitor can see on Common App - and we collect it legally.
Each member record carries the institution name, state and country, control type where published, the application platforms it accepts, and the identifiers used on the platform.
Deadline fields are delivered as rows rather than a column, because most institutions have several: early decision, early action, regular decision, rolling and transfer, each with its own date, and several run more than one early round. A single deadline column is wrong for most members.
Requirement fields cover the application fee and whether waivers are offered, testing policy including test optional and test free where stated, recommendation requirements by type and count, essay and supplemental question requirements, and portfolio or audition expectations where they apply.
Cycle is recorded on every row. A requirement without the admission year it applies to is not usable, and mixing cycles in one table is how an advice product starts telling students the wrong thing.
Change records are delivered alongside: what moved since the previous collection, for which institution and when we saw it, because mid cycle amendments are exactly the thing a counsellor needs to hear about.
Cycle handling is designed in rather than added. Historical cycles are retained rather than overwritten, which makes it possible to show how an institution's requirements have moved - a question counsellors ask constantly and nobody can answer from a current snapshot.
Change alerting is the output most advice products want. A mid cycle amendment to a deadline or a testing policy needs to reach a counsellor within days, not at the next annual refresh, so the collection runs frequently through the active season and the changes are delivered as records that can drive a notification.
Comparison sets are the common analytical use: a student's list of institutions side by side on deadlines, fees, testing and essay load, which is exactly the table a counsellor builds by hand today. Structured collection turns hours of manual work into a query.
Off season the cadence drops sharply. Requirements for the next cycle appear at a predictable point in the year, and collecting weekly in between buys nothing, so the schedule follows the admissions calendar rather than a fixed interval.
Common App is the shared application platform most United States undergraduate admissions run through. Students complete one core application and submit it to member colleges, each of which sets its own requirements on top: deadlines, fees, testing policy, essay questions, recommendation rules and portfolio expectations.
That per member variation is the dataset. The shared core is uniform and uninteresting; the differences between hundreds of institutions are what students, counsellors and admissions software all need, and they are published on the platform's explore surfaces.
The cycle matters more than on almost any source we work with. Requirements are set annually, published ahead of the application season and occasionally amended mid cycle, and last year's values are not merely stale, they are wrong in a way that costs somebody an application.
The explore surface shows each member's deadlines, fees, testing policy and essay requirements to any visitor. Volume is moderate by web standards - hundreds of institutions rather than hundreds of thousands of pages - which makes completeness achievable in a way it rarely is elsewhere.
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Full plan detailsMost datasets we build inform a business decision. This one informs a seventeen year old deciding when to submit an application, and a mistake in it has a consequence that cannot be fixed the following week.
That changes how the pipeline should be built. Every field carries the cycle it belongs to; changes are delivered as records rather than silently overwritten; and anything that fails to parse is flagged loudly rather than defaulting to a previous value. A stale deadline that quietly persists is worse than a missing one, because the missing one gets noticed.
The second reason for care is testing policy, which has moved more than any other field in recent admission cycles. Institutions have shifted between requiring tests, being optional and not considering them at all, and some have changed position mid cycle. A product carrying last year's policy gives students advice that is not merely outdated but actively harmful to their chances.
The third is fees and waivers. Application fees are a real barrier and waiver availability differs by institution, so a dataset that carries the fee but not the waiver policy tells half a story to exactly the students for whom the other half matters most.
The fourth is completeness. Because the member list is in the hundreds rather than the millions, a complete dataset is achievable, and partial coverage in this domain is not a reasonable place to stop.
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ScrapeIt is a managed extraction company, not a tool you have to learn. Our team builds the pipeline, watches it through the admissions cycle when requirements actually move, and repairs it before a deadline goes stale in your product.
You see a sample first, in your format, over your institution list, with deadlines as rows and the cycle on every field so you can confirm the shape before the season starts.
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Because most institutions have several: early decision, early action, regular decision, rolling and transfer, and several run more than one early round. A single deadline column is simply wrong for most members, and collapsing them is how a product ends up showing a student the wrong date.
As a per cycle field with change records, and collected frequently through the active season. Testing policy has moved more than any other field in recent cycles, including mid cycle, and a product carrying last year's value gives advice that actively harms a student's chances.
It is flagged loudly rather than defaulted to the previous value. On this source a stale value that quietly persists is worse than a missing one, because the missing one gets noticed and the stale one gets trusted. We build it that way deliberately.
Yes, and they are retained rather than overwritten. That makes it possible to show how an institution's requirements have moved over years, which counsellors ask about constantly and nobody can answer from a current snapshot.
On the admissions calendar rather than a flat interval: frequently through the active season when amendments happen, sparsely in between when nothing moves. Weekly collection in the off season buys nothing, and monthly collection during the season misses the amendments that matter.
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Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
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