The U.S. Department of Education moved to limit its expanded IPEDS admissions and consumer-transparency supplement to four-year institutions, exempting open-enrollment and community colleges from the most onerous disaggregated reporting requirements. The Federal Register notice clarifies that affected colleges must submit six years of admissions data disaggregated by race and sex for applicants, admits and enrollees, plus crosswalks to SAT/ACT scores and family income dating back to 2020–21. A related Federal Register item confirmed the administration’s decision to focus the new mandate on four-year selective institutions, responding to sector feedback that implementing such detailed reporting would unduly burden open-access institutions. The department said the data will be used to detect race-based preference in admissions consistent with recent Supreme Court scrutiny. Compliance officers and registrars should prepare: four-year selective campuses will need to aggregate legacy admissions records and ensure data integrity and privacy controls ahead of the next IPEDS cycle. Clarification: IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) is the federal survey used to collect institutional financial, enrollment and outcomes data tied to federal aid eligibility.