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Data changelog

Costs, salaries, and visa rules change — and sometimes we get things wrong. Every material change to our data or methodology is listed here, dated. If a number on your scorecard looks off, check this page first, then email hello@truthpathms.com.

2026-07-08

Outcome reporting opens, and a fairness fix for German programs

  • ·You can now report your admit/reject/waitlist at /report-outcome (or from your scorecard). Self-reported outcomes — rejects matter as much as admits — will be aggregated and published as real admission bars, always labeled self-reported until individually verified.
  • ·German open-admission programs (TU Berlin, KIT, TU Darmstadt) were topping rankings on cost alone while their real gate — undergraduate credit-profile requirements — isn't something our GPA-based score can check. Each now carries an explicit "high score ≠ you qualify" risk flag with the exact credit minima to verify against your transcript.

2026-07-08

GRE now scored (where verified), plus 12 more programs: Canada, Germany, more USA

  • ·The GRE now affects the admit score — but only for programs whose GRE policy we verified from the official page: 325+ adds 8 points, 315-324 adds 4. Where a program REQUIRES the GRE (NC State, Stony Brook, Rutgers, TUM, RWTH) and you haven't entered one, the score drops 10 points and a risk flag explains why: you can't submit a complete application without it. Programs with unverified policies ignore the GRE entirely — we don't guess.
  • ·Added 12 requirements-verified programs (ranked matching now totals 38): UBC, McGill, Alberta, and SFU in Canada; TU Berlin, KIT, and TU Darmstadt in Germany; UMD College Park, Ohio State, Rutgers, Minnesota, and UMass Amherst in the USA.
  • ·Honesty notes from the research: TU Berlin and TU Darmstadt are effectively open-admission if your credit profile qualifies — there is no GPA bar, so we set a deliberately low one (2.5) rather than invent a fake threshold. Minnesota will not read a GRE score at all — don't pay to send one. UMD publishes a 3.5 GPA eligibility bar, the highest in this tier.
  • ·As before: cost/salary for this tier are QS-rank-tier estimates with a "≈ costs estimated" badge — only the admission bars are verified.

2026-07-07

New tier: 12 requirements-verified USA programs join the ranked matching

  • ·Added 12 USA MS CS programs (Purdue, NC State, UT Dallas, Northeastern, USC, Texas A&M, Stony Brook, UB Buffalo, UC Irvine, UF, ASU Tempe, NYU Tandon) to the ranked matching — total is now 26.
  • ·For each, the admission bar (minimum GPA and GRE policy) was verified against the official admissions page or graduate catalog on 2026-07-07. Where a school publishes no minimum (Purdue, USC, Texas A&M, UF), we use a disclosed estimate of the competitive threshold — each card's note says which kind it is.
  • ·Cost and salary for this tier are QS-rank-tier ESTIMATES (same basis as the coverage search), not verified per school — these matches carry a "≈ costs estimated" badge, and the comparison table shows a data-confidence row.
  • ·Recorded each program's structured GRE policy (required / optional / not considered for international applicants). Notable: NC State and Stony Brook still require the GRE from international applicants; USC states submitted scores are not reviewed. GRE still doesn't move the score — that remains disclosed on the form.

2026-07-07

University pages, consultant-push badge, and scoring disclosure

  • ·Added an individual page for each of the 272 coverage universities, with the same tiered estimates and the same disclaimer as the search — now linkable and crawlable.
  • ·Promoted the consultant-marketing flag to a visible "⚑ Consultant-push" badge on match cards. It remains our editorial judgment, not a sourced statistic.
  • ·Disclosed on the form and in the methodology that GRE score and branch are saved with your submission but not yet part of the score. They were previously collected without this being stated.

2026-07-07

USA H-1B risk flag and 272-university coverage layer

  • ·Added a risk flag to every USA program: the $100k supplemental H-1B employer fee (effective Sep 21, 2025) and the wage-weighted lottery (effective Feb 27, 2026) make post-OPT H-1B conversion structurally harder for entry-level applicants. The 3-year STEM OPT window itself is unchanged.
  • ·Added the broad coverage layer: 272 universities from the QS World University Rankings 2026, with cost/salary/payback as tiered estimates by QS rank — deliberately separate from, and lower-confidence than, the 14 verified programs.
  • ·We do not publish admit likelihoods for coverage universities: QS rank did not predict actual admission bars when checked against our 14 verified entries, so we won't fabricate one.

2026-07-06

Full refresh of the 14 verified programs

  • ·Re-checked tuition, living costs, and entry requirements against official university pages; INR conversions at mid-market rates of 2026-07-06 (1 USD = ₹95.36, 1 GBP = ₹127.14, 1 CAD = ₹67.22, 1 EUR = ₹108.87, 1 AUD = ₹66.10).
  • ·Adopted official per-institution salary data where published: Georgia Tech MS CS median $138,500 (2022-23 career survey) and NJIT MS Data Science average $91,323 (Class of 2024, N=13 — small sample, disclosed). All other salaries remain broad market bands, not per-university outcomes.
  • ·Corrected a common assumption: TUM now charges real non-EU tuition — it is no longer near-free. RWTH Aachen remains near-zero tuition for non-EU students.
  • ·Flagged UK Graduate Route shortening to 18 months for visas granted from Jan 2027, and Australia's 2026 Subclass 485 tightening (age cap 35, IELTS 6.5, higher fees), on the affected programs.
  • ·Noted data channels we tried and could not use (US College Scorecard program-level earnings, HESA/LEO per-programme PGT salaries, QILT per-university international medians) — so "we couldn't verify" is on the record, not hidden.