What to verify before trusting any admissions website

Graduate admissions is high-stakes and time-pressured, which makes it exactly the kind of space where confident-sounding but wrong information does real damage. That's true whether the wrong information comes from a forum post, an outdated guide, or an AI tool.

A few honest questions worth asking of any source, GradsHQ included: does it tell you when it doesn't know something, or does it fill every field with a plausible-sounding guess? Does it show you where a claim came from, or just assert it? Does it separate what's confirmed from what's estimated?

On GradsHQ specifically, every programme and scholarship we surface carries a verification status and a source link — Verified, Needs Verification, or Unverified — precisely so you're not taking our word for a tuition figure or a deadline. If something is unconfirmed, it says so, rather than rendering a confident-looking number that happens to be a guess.

The broader habit is the useful part, independent of which tool you use: treat any single source, including this one, as a starting point for your own verification against the official university or funder page — not a final answer.