The Maple Listby AdmissionPrep

Trust

Sources & citations

We hold ourselves to a simple rule: every factual claim is either linked to a verified official source, or plainly marked “unverified.” We never invent a citation to make the site look more complete than it is.

The provenance labels

Every figure on a school page carries one of these:

  • Sourced. Backed by an official page we have verified: the figure appears on that page; follow the link to see it.
  • Official dataset. From an official government dataset whose per-institution figures are only available through an interactive lookup tool. The number isn't printed on a single page, so we link the dataset and state its name and year.
  • Estimate. Our editorial estimate. The school doesn't publish a single admission average, so treat this as approximate (competitive programs often run higher).
  • Computed by us. A value we calculate under our published, versioned methodology.
  • Editorial. Our own written summary. Confirm specifics on the school's official site.
  • Public info. A stable, publicly-known descriptor (campus type, residence, co-op, founding year), not a contestable statistic.
  • Unverified. A figure we state but haven't yet confirmed on an official page. We never fabricate a citation to fill the gap.

How we verify a source

A figure is marked Sourced only when the value itself appears on an official page we link. Follow the link and you’ll find the number on the page, not just a live website. Some authoritative figures come from a government dataset whose per-institution numbers are only available through an interactive lookup tool (for example, the Ontario University Graduate Survey). Those are labelled Official dataset, not Sourced, because the figure isn’t printed on a single page. We name the dataset and its year instead of implying you can see it at the link. Where a school publishes only per-program bands rather than one institutional average, we show the documented range and mark the single number an Estimate. An automated checker re-fetches every cited page on a schedule and confirms it still resolves (not a 404, redirect, or error); a link that breaks is downgraded rather than left to rot.

How we keep this current

A maintenance job runs on a daily schedule. Each run re-fetches the pages we cite, confirms they still resolve, and compares their content against the last snapshot. If a page moves, breaks, or its figure changes, that fact is flagged and held out of our rankings until it's re-confirmed against the official page, so a number that quietly changes under us is caught, not trusted by default.

And we show it in the open: every school page carries a “Last checked” date for its sources. The most recent automated sweep ran July 3, 2026, with 34 of 34 schools carrying a recorded re-verification.

Every check we run, when it last ran, and every correction we've made (with the verified source and why) is published on the accuracy log. If a figure looks wrong, you can question it there or right where it appears; challenges go to a review queue and confirmed fixes are logged permanently.

Where we are today

Honesty includes being honest about coverage. Right now 22 of 34 schools have at least one verified official source wired up, and about 65% of the raw figures across all school pages link to one. The rest are marked Unverified. That number should climb as our source crawler verifies more official pages. Most-needed next: per-school tuition/fees pages and enrollment/outcomes pages, and sources for colleges.

What we compute vs. what we cite

Our fit grades, category scores, rankings and value index are computed by us, not facts to be sourced, so they link to our published methodology instead of an outside page. School overviews are our own editorial summaries; the figures inside them follow the same citation rules. We do not scrape or reuse any other aggregator’s data, grades or rankings.

Reviews

The same principle governs reviews: verified accounts only, one per person per school, every review moderated, no aggregate shown below our display threshold, and we never fabricate reviews. See the methodology page for the full review-integrity rules.

Data as of June 2026.