Research and admissions offices at U.S. institutions asked for extra time to complete a federal admissions survey, saying 81% of institutions are still collating required data with less than a month to the deadline. Administrators cited staffing constraints, competing reporting obligations, and post-pandemic data-collection burdens. Survey contractors and federal program managers now face a choice between granting extensions or enforcing deadlines—each carries trade-offs for compliance, campus workload and timely policy analysis. Campus research offices say the pressure risks diverting staff from core analytics, grant support and student‑facing services during a critical reporting cycle.