The U.S. Department of Education refined a controversial plan this week, limiting a new IPEDS Admissions and Consumer Transparency supplement to four-year, selective institutions and exempting open-admission and community colleges. The notice, published in the Federal Register, requires affected colleges to submit six years of disaggregated application, admissions and enrollment data by race and sex and to cross-reference test scores, GPA and income. The move follows public comments and agency concerns about the burden on smaller campuses and signals a targeted federal effort to audit admissions practices at selective campuses. Institutions now face a narrow but intense compliance window as the Education Department prepares the next reporting cycle.