The easiest way to stay on top of university admissions news is to write one clear prompt in AIDular and let it search for you on a schedule. No more checking ten different university websites every week.
Admissions season is stressful. Deadlines shift. Open days get announced at random. Fee structures change. If you are applying to multiple universities, keeping track of all of it manually is exhausting. This post shows you exactly how to set up AIDular to do that work for you.
Why This Is Tricky to Track Manually
Each university publishes updates in a different place. Some post on their official admissions page. Others announce things on social media or buried in press releases. Missing one update can mean missing a deadline or an open day you really wanted to attend.
A tool that searches the web for you and sends a summary to your inbox is a much better system.
Step 1: Be Specific About Which Universities You Care About
A vague prompt gets vague results. Start by listing the universities you are actually watching. You do not need to track every school in the country, just the ones on your list.
Bad prompt: "university admissions news"
Good prompt: specific, focused, and tells AIDular exactly what to look for.
Step 2: Choose What You Want to Know
Admissions news covers a lot of ground. Narrow it down to what actually matters to you:
- Application opening and closing dates
- Changes to entry requirements (grades, tests, portfolios)
- Open day and campus visit announcements
- Scholarship or bursary news tied to admissions
- Course changes or new programmes being added
Pick two or three of these. Trying to track everything at once makes your report harder to read.
Step 3: Write Your Prompt
Here is a copy-paste example you can use or adapt:
Search for admissions news from the University of Manchester, University of Edinburgh, and King's College London. I want updates on: application deadlines, open day dates, changes to entry requirements, and any new undergraduate courses. Include any scholarship announcements linked to admissions. Ignore postgraduate news.
Paste that into AIDular at aidular.com, swap in your own universities, and you are set.
Step 4: Pick the Right Schedule
For admissions tracking, a weekly schedule works best for most people. Here is why:
- Daily is too frequent. Admissions pages do not update every day.
- Weekly catches new open day announcements, deadline reminders, and requirement changes before they become urgent.
- Monthly is too slow. You could miss an open day registration window that closes in two weeks.
Set it to weekly and AIDular will email you a sourced report every week with anything new it found.
Step 5: Add Yourself and Anyone Helping You
If a parent, guardian, or school counsellor is helping you with applications, add their email as a recipient too. AIDular lets you send the same report to multiple people, so everyone stays on the same page without extra forwarding.
What a Good Report Looks Like
AIDular's report will list each finding with a source link so you can click through and verify anything that matters. If a university announces a new open day, you will see it in your inbox that week, not three weeks later when spots are already full.
A Few Extra Prompt Tips
- Use the university's official name, not abbreviations. "University of Bristol" works better than "UoBristol".
- If you are applying to a specific course, mention it. "Computer Science admissions at UCL" is more focused than just "UCL admissions".
- You can run separate prompts for separate universities if you want cleaner, dedicated reports for each one.
Admissions season has enough stress in it already. Set up your AIDular tracker once, and you can stop checking websites manually. The Lite plan is free, so there is nothing to lose. Head to aidular.com and give it a try today.