§ Recipes

Worked examples.

One question, the method in sight, a chart you can operate, and the API query behind it. Written for IR and analysts. Counselors are welcome.

College Pricing Power

IPEDS · College Scorecard · CDS C1 cross-check

Acceptance rate and yield from IPEDS ADM2024 (fall 2024), joined to College Scorecard federal-loan burden and Title IV net price. Two scatters divided at this sample's medians — not an estimate of how enrollment would respond to a price change.

ForIR and enrollment managers comparing peer yield and federal-loan burden; analysts joining IPEDS ADM counts to College Scorecard.

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Test-optional tracker

CDS C8 · C9

Line chart of SAT submission percentage over time for seven well-documented schools (Yale 2009–2024, Caltech 2002–2020, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, Wake Forest). Uses the submission rate as an honest proxy for effective test-optional policy — C8 states the rule; C9 counts what enrolled first-years did.

ForIR and policy analysts reading effective policy from C9 submission rates; C8 is the written version.

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Wait-list odds

CDS C2 · C1 · Scorecard

A corpus-wide look at CDS C2 wait-list outcomes: offer, accept, and admit counts, bucketed by C1 selectivity and by federal control, size, and Carnegie class.

ForEnrollment managers and IR. C2 offer / accept / admit, bucketed.

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Endowment draw-rate tracker

IPEDS F2 · PART H

Five fiscal years of private nonprofit IPEDS Finance filings: sector distributions, shares above 5%, 7%, and 15%, plus a school-by-school value and draw-rate history. An independent federal-data estimate, not a reproduction of audited-statement analysis.

ForIR, college-finance reporters, trustees. IPEDS F2 Part H estimate.

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Alignment gap

CDS H2A · Scorecard · IPEDS

Debt burden from College Scorecard, joined to CDS H2A merit aid and IPEDS endowment. Compare the alignment gap with merit aid, then with endowment per student. Hover any school.

ForIR, college-finance reporters, and analysts joining CDS H2A merit aid to Scorecard earnings and debt, and IPEDS endowment.

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  • Net-price-by-income-bracket (H2A, H4) — the single most-asked question in college search.
  • Realistic/reach/safety calibration from the published C9/C11 distributions.
  • Recruited athlete × program strength (Section F × Section J).
  • “Has this school changed?” — longitudinal view of one school's selectivity, yield, and aid generosity over 5+ years.

Want to build one of these? See the recipes guide.

Looking for the data directly? Head to the public API or browse every school in the directory.