Release 6 – June 29, 2025

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New Features and Enhancements

CAS API Enhancements

The following enhancements are automatically available for the CAS API, and no action is required on the part of any school or program. If you have any questions about these features, contact support.

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

Program Deadline Time Zones Now Supported in the CAS Application and Applications APIs

The existing programSelected nodes for the CAS Application and Applications APIs have a new property to communicate program deadline time zones:

deadlineDateTimezone - the time zone of the program application submission deadline date

For example, if the deadline is "2024-12-02" and the deadlineDateTimezone is "America/Los_Angeles," an applicant submitting in the Eastern Time zone would have until 2:59 AM ET on 2024-12-03 to submit their application.

See the CAS API technical reference documentation for more information.

Coming Soon!

Please review the list of upcoming events, including product updates and regional training opportunities.

Event	Date	Details
Shared Lookup Table Updates for Fall 2025	September 2025	Many fields in the Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select; for example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared "lookup tables" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file. Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. The last date to submit lookup table update requests was June 13, 2025. New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in September 2025 (subject to change). Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.

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Shared Lookup Table Updates for Fall 2025

September 2025

Many fields in the Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select; for example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared "lookup tables" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file.

Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. The last date to submit lookup table update requests was June 13, 2025.

New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in September 2025 (subject to change).

Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.