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Admissions AI failed silently. This is the $499 Snapshot that found it.

Casual-glance overview here. Every deeper claim is a click away: full sample report, each cited regulation, every chart, every finding — and "how does this help me?" companion pages for each.

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The 4-number quick verdict

Determination

Category C

High-severity drift events

A3 deny-lane rate

23% → 68%

Days to detect (silent)

45+

What does Category C actually mean? →

What happened in one paragraph

A well-endowed private research university's AI admissions-recommender silently over-routed A3 (first-generation, mid-low-income, under-resourced public school applicants) into the deny-or-waitlist lane. Aggregate admission-rate and yield dashboards stayed green. The differential was visible only through per-student-group distributional-shape analysis by an independent verifier. Under Title VI + Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, every affected admissions decision is now subject to disparate-impact review.

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The three charts (each linked to its own deep-dive)

Chart 1 · Deep dive Rolling mean by student group Where the silent A3 divergence begins. What the eye sees vs what the enrollment-management dashboard reported. Chart 2 · Deep dive Baseline vs recent distribution A3 mass moved RIGHT (into deny-or-waitlist). How to read the shape shift. Chart 3 · Deep dive Lane rate per student group A3 deny-lane rose sharply while others stayed stable. The one pattern OCR and DOJ look for.

Regulations applied — each on its own page

Every cited framework has a dedicated subpage with the actual regulatory text, plain-English translation, what the Snapshot shows against it, and a "how does this help me?" benefit companion.

Regulation Title VI (42 USC 2000d) Non-discrimination in federally-funded education. The rule the A3 differential triggers. Case law SFFA v. Harvard (600 U.S. 181, 2023) Race-neutral admissions AI + proxy-variable disparate-impact challenge. Regulation Title IX (20 USC 1681) Sex-based non-discrimination in education programs. AI-decision follow-on. Regulation FERPA (20 USC 1232g) Applicant + student record retention + parent/eligible-student access rights. Regulation ED OCR AI guidance 2025-2026 Department of Education Office for Civil Rights AI-in-decision-making stance. Regulation ED Dear Colleague Letter on AI (2025) Institution-level expectations for AI in admissions, financial-aid, and student support. Regulation State AG AI-in-education enforcement California / New York / Illinois / Texas active 2025-2026. Injunctive + civil penalty range. Regulation Higher Education Act Section 498 Title IV federal student aid institutional eligibility. The financial-aid nuclear option. Regulation Accreditor AI-in-decision-making standards Middle States / SACSCOC / WSCUC / HLC 2025-2026. Site-visit + probation exposure. Regulation IL SB 3773 Illinois Student Data Protection Act, AI extension 2026. Regulation Colorado SB 26-189 Colorado SB 24-205 replacement, educational AI provisions effective Jan 1, 2027. Regulation COPPA (15 USC 6501) K-12 AI applications with under-13 students; applies to institution's K-12 outreach pipeline. Regulation (shared) NIST AI RMF 1.0 GOVERN / MAP / MEASURE / MANAGE. Voluntary but load-bearing baseline.

Findings + methodology deep dives

Methodology How Category C is derived Category A / B / C decision logic. Why 10 high-severity events + student-group differential = C. Methodology Counterparty-question rehearsal The 5-decision reproducibility drill your GC and OCR-response counsel will thank you for. Methodology Independent-verifier declaration Why the control plane cannot reside within the entity being regulated.

The full records

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