Analytics Quick Start Guide

Quick Start Video

Note: this video references Admissions by Liaison, which was renamed to Liaison Outcomes

What is Analytics by Liaison?

Analytics by Liaison provides data-driven insights to help you spot trends and shape your class. It gives your school a secure and robust way to explore multi-year applicant and application data using visual representations and dashboards, making it a complete solution for admission offices looking to optimize their efforts for growing or shaping their classes. 

Why does Analytics by Liaison matter?

Your applicant data tells the story of your enrollment process. Data, however, in raw numbers, is often difficult to communicate and digest. With many campus stakeholders in line to consume this information, having a vehicle that delivers it visually and is customized to your campus needs is paramount. Here’s how Analytics by Liaison can help you communicate with the following stakeholders:

What are some key benefits of Analytics by Liaison?

Where does the data come from?

As applicants apply to your program(s), the data that they enter in the Centralized Application Service (CAS) application is collected and fed into Analytics by Liaison, where it’s aggregated and visualized for you. In Analytics by Liaison, data becomes useful information that you can use to manage strategic initiatives and to share with some of the key stakeholders noted above.  

A representation of data flowing from CAS to WebAdMIT

How can I use the dashboards?

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Better understand submission trends across cycles

Volume Summary

Analyze how your applicant pool is growing month-by-month within each cycle, easily compare how many applicants you have in this year (or a given month) versus previous years (or given months), and determine any variances

Submitted Applicants by Month – Running Totals

Analyze how your applicant pool is growing week-by-week within each cycle, easily compare how many applicants you have in this year (or a given week) versus previous years (or given weeks), and determine any variances

Submitted Applicants by Week – Running Totals

View discrete totals of submitted applicants by month of submission (i.e., the counts for each month do not include the counts from the previous months)

Submitted Applicants by Month – Discrete Totals

View discrete totals of submitted applicants by month of submission against a cohort line that represents the average number of submitted applicants per month across all organizations in the CAS (allowing you to benchmark your program)

Submitted Applicant by Month with Cohort – Discrete Totals

Benchmark your monthly submitted applicant totals against a custom cohort of five to ten organizations (e.g., top competitors, schools with similar populations, private vs. public, etc.)

Submitted Applicants by Month vs User-defined Cohort

View the number of submitted designations (i.e., applications that have been paid for and submitted) in each post-submission application status

Submitted Designations by Application Status

Identify the composition of your applicant pool by legal sex, legal sex by cycle, age groups according to legal sex, and ethnicities and races according to legal sex

Applicant Legal Sex Distribution by Race and Ethnicity

Identify the composition of your applicant pool by age groups and races and ethnicities

Age Group, Race and Ethnicity

Benchmark your applicant pools’ demographic information against CAS averages 

Legal Sex, Ethnicity and Citizenship Status with Cohort

Identify the states where your domestic students are coming from

Applicants by State of Residency

Identify the countries where your international students are coming from

Non-US Applicants by Country of Citizenship – Map 

Identify the counties where your domestic students are coming from 

Applicants by County

View how far along your applicants are in completing the Personal Information, Academic History, and Supporting Information sections of the application

Application Progress

 

Determine progress through each of the four application quadrants Section Status

Identify your top domestic and international feeder schools (based on the colleges your applicants self-report as attended)

Colleges Attended

Identify the top domestic and international high schools your applicants graduated from (based on the high schools your applicants self-report) Applicants by High School Attended

View (where applicable) a breakdown of your applicant pool’s: 

  • DAT scores
  • GRE scores
  • MCAT scores
  • NBDE results
  • TOEFL scores

Note: Association users can also access the following dashboards: 

The California State University Custom Dashboards 

In addition to the core dashboards listed above, Analytics by Liaison users from The California State University have access to a suite of custom reports via the Org Custom Reports tab.   

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Compare submitted applications, application volume, and/or applicant volume in the current cycle to the previous two cycles

Activity Volume

You can filter the submitted applications by applicant type and campus

Determine which applicants applied to only one campus (i.e., exclusive applicants) or view a summary of all applicants’ ethnicities

Campus Exclusive Applicants

You can filter the exclusive applicants by applicant type

Determine the number of shared applicants between two campuses (i.e., the number of applicants who applied to both campus A and campus B, campus B and campus C, etc.)

Campus Overlap

You can filter by cycle, applicant type, and term

Compare the number of applicants and applications in the current cycle to the previous cycle 

Cycle Overview

Applicant and application counts are broken out by applicant type 

Compare the following metrics for the current cycle against previous cycles:

  • The number of applicants and applications (i.e., designations) for the prior day
  • Applicant and applications counts for the last three days before the fall deadline
  • The number of submitted applications by day
  • The number of submitted applications leading up to the fall deadline

Current Cycle Compared to Prior Cycles

 

View a daily status of submitted applications to determine whether application submissions are trending above or below the prior cycle

In Progress and Submitted Applications

 

Compare the number and percentage change of submitted applications by type of applicant in the current cycle to the previous cycle 

Applicant Types by Organization: % Change and Counts

 

View EOP statistics

EOP Applicants

 

View applicants who've:

  • Linked their CCGI and Cal State Apply accounts
  • Linked their CCGI and Cal State Apply accounts and imported data from CCGI

CCGI Statistics – Applicants

 

View the total count of applicants (by high school) who've:

  • Linked their CCGI and Cal State Apply accounts
  • Linked their CCGI and Cal State Apply accounts and imported data from CCGI
CCGI Statistics – High Schools  

How does Analytics by Liaison compare to WebAdMIT?

It's important to note that Analytics by Liaison and WebAdMIT are two different systems with two distinct purposes. WebAdMIT is used to manage your application process, communicate with applicants, and move them through your workflow, while Analytics by Liaison is used for data analysis and reporting. WebAdMIT stores applicant data and allows you to make admissions decisions, while Analytics by Liaison compiles that data and helps you make sense of it so you can answer strategic questions.