Schools often over-report. Remember when completing a self-evaluation report that the accreditation review process includes repeated contacts between the school and the peer review team. The team has opportunities to ask for additional information to clarify a point. Therefore, you need not do "just-in-case" reporting.

The self-evaluation report should "tell the story" of the school as it relates to its mission and to the standards. If you try to anticipate every possible question, the peer review team's task becomes unmanageable. Rather than focusing on the important issues, they will spend their time trying to make sure they have found all of the relevant information.

It is much better to be concise and to let the peer review team ask for additional information where it is necessary. If your self-evaluation report exceeds 60 to 100 pages, you are almost certain to be over-reporting.