Rankings and data displays are generated from official federal datasets by a fixed, disclosed formula. No advertiser, school, or partner can alter them. Sponsored placements, if any, are labeled.
When you submit a form asking to be matched with programs or aid information, we may share the information you provide with matched school and program partners so they can contact you, and we may be paid for that referral. This is disclosed on every form. We never sell data collected passively — only what you explicitly submit.
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Errors reported via the contact page are verified against the primary source and corrected in the next build — typically within days.
Plain-English summaries are AI-drafted from the official figures and pass an automated fact-check that rejects any number not present in the source data. The numbers themselves are never AI-generated.