How SaplingSky verifies school-admission information
“Verified” should mean more than “we found it online.” SaplingSky uses a source-and-provenance approach designed for a fast-changing admission cycle: identify the authority, match the correct school and year, preserve the source, and keep historical planning evidence separate from current rules.
Source hierarchy
- Delhi Directorate of Education and other competent official authorities.
- The school's own admission notice, criteria document, fee notice or official website.
- Other sources used for discovery or context only when the underlying claim can be independently supported.
1. Start with the most authoritative source available
For Delhi admissions, Directorate of Education and other competent public-authority sources are preferred. Official school admission notices, criteria documents, fee notices and school websites are the next layer. Secondary sources can help discover a document, but they should not silently replace the underlying official evidence.
2. Verify the campus, school and admission cycle
A familiar school name can refer to more than one branch. Before attaching a criterion, fee, seat figure or date, SaplingSky aims to match the source to the correct campus and academic year. Information from 2026–27 remains labelled as 2026–27 and is not relabelled as 2027–28.
3. Keep school-specific criteria school-specific
There is no single points matrix that can safely be applied to every Delhi private unaided school. Distance, sibling, alumni, girl-child, staff-ward, first-born and other criteria can vary in wording and value. Calculators therefore use the criteria verified for the selected school and cycle.
4. Publish numbers only with enough context
A fee without its frequency, class or source can mislead. A seat number without the relevant entry level or category can do the same. Where the evidence supports a value, SaplingSky should preserve the supporting context; where it does not, the value should remain unavailable rather than be inferred from another school.
5. Separate evidence from interpretation
A historical points total can explain how a family would have scored under a past published matrix. It is not a forecast of selection. Distance bands, cut-offs, waiting-list movement and draw-of-lots outcomes are described according to the evidence available and should not be presented as guarantees.
6. Let current-cycle evidence supersede historical planning data
Historical information is useful before a school publishes its new notice. Once a 2027–28 source is verified, the current-cycle rule takes priority in the relevant current-cycle experience. Historical information can remain available for comparison, but it should stay clearly dated.
What a parent should look for on a school profile
Check the academic year, the source or provenance link, the last-verified information where shown, and whether a value is current or historical. For the 2027–28 cycle, a new official school or DoE notice overrides a historical 2026–27 criterion when the two differ.
Corrections and changing information
Admission information changes during the cycle. When a stronger or newer official source conflicts with an existing value, the verified record should be corrected and the current-cycle experience updated. SaplingSky's goal is not to preserve a previous answer for consistency; it is to preserve the strongest available evidence and its date.
Methodology is not a substitute for the school notice
Parents should read the current official notice before applying. SaplingSky is a research and planning layer intended to make that evidence easier to find, compare and understand—not an issuing authority for admissions.
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