Universities have been experiencing a record number of bot attacks since the start of the admission campaign

In the first days of the university admission campaign, which started on June 20, 2025, bot traffic reached record levels - up to 50% of their total number of requests. Anton Chemyakin, head of Servicepipe's analytical department, told Izvestia about this.

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"This traffic is dominated by parser bots. And the bots are created by the applicants themselves in order to more accurately calculate their chances of admission.: they can apply to several universities, in each university — for several specialties, while during the admission campaign yesterday's students pick up documents, change priorities, the admission lists change several times a day (and in some universities — in real time)," he said.

According to him, in order to calculate the probability of getting into a budget for a particular educational institution, applicants are forced to constantly monitor changes in the admission lists that are published on university websites.

"This is where the bot comes to the rescue, which constantly checks (parsit. The cherished lists and the SNILS numbers track how they have changed: where did the guys with the higher USE score send the documents, how did they change their priorities in choosing one direction or another. Until recently, such parsers were written by future students of technical universities, but this year there has been an explosive growth in "humanitarian" parsers," the expert pointed out.

Applicants of humanities and natural sciences have begun to actively use AI to create parsing bots to monitor the list of applicants.

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