The Department of Education has mandated that nearly 2,200 colleges submit seven years of granular admissions data by March 18 under the new Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS). The directive requires breakdowns by race, sex, grades, test scores and family income, and was issued quickly at the behest of the Trump administration to probe post–affirmative-action admissions practices. Small institutions and single-person institutional research offices report heavy operational stress retrieving legacy records from mothballed systems. John Brown University’s director of institutional research described days of manual extraction as administrators race to meet deadlines under threat of fines and potential loss of federal aid. The rush and technical errors in the Federal Register notice have raised questions about the collection’s implementation timeline and the capacity of smaller campuses to comply.