Release 11 – December 7, 2025
New Features and Enhancements
Cross-Portal Enhancements
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
Set Maximum Number of Courses Matched for Prerequisites
For CASs on the CAS 3+ platform that also offer the Prerequisite feature in the CAS Configuration Portal, this enhancement will be automatically available for use in the next cycle. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
For CASs on the CAS 3+ platform that allow programs to identify their coursework prerequisites and have applicants match coursework to them, programs can now identify the maximum number of courses that applicants can match for each prerequisite. This can help guide applicants and programs on prerequisite requirements.
CAS Applicant Portal
If an applicant tries to match more than the maximum number of courses to a prerequisite, they receive an error message. They must change their selections before they can save.
CAS Configuration Portal
Programs can choose to identify the maximum number of courses per prerequisite when listing their prerequisites.
As a best practice, consider how other institutions offer courses when entering a maximum. For example, some institutions offer lecture and lab courses as one course, while others separate these into two courses. In this scenario, it's best to list at least two as the maximum, so applicants have the flexibility to link courses as their institution offered them.
New International Baccalaureate (IB) Tests
This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs that collect applicant-reported IB tests. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
The International Baccalaureate (IB) will offer the following tests starting in May 2026:
- Environmental systems and societies HL
- Sports, exercise, and health science HL
CAS Applicant Portal
Applicants can now select these tests when adding planned tests in the Standardized Tests section.
WebAdMIT
These tests are now included in the Applicant Reported IB field lookup values, so you can use them in the List Manager and Export Manager.
Coming Soon: TOEFL Scoring Scale Changes
This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs accepting unofficial and official TOEFL scores. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
Starting January 21, 2026, ETS's TOEFL exam will have a new 1-6 scoring scale for each section and overall total score. To accommodate this, the following changes will be made:
- CAS Applicant Portal: applicants will be able to report their scores in both the old and new scoring scales in the Standardized Tests section. If available in your CAS, they can continue to send official TOEFL scores to their programs via the CAS TOEFL code.
- Liaison Outcomes: the updated scoring scale will be reflected in the TOEFL score table.
- WebAdMIT: a new set of TOEFL-related fields for this new scoring scale will be available. You must add these fields to any place you may already pull in TOEFL fields (e.g., lists, exports, scoring, etc.).
Important: when you receive official TOEFL scores taken after January 21, 2026, ETS will provide the historical scale equivalent for only the overall total score (i.e., both a 6 (on the new scoring scale) and 120 (on the old scoring scale)). ETS is not providing the historical scale equivalent for any section scores (i.e., you will only get a 4 (on the new scoring scale) for the Reading section). Be sure to review all your templates to accommodate the new scoring scale and capture the data you need.
More information will be shared in future release notes.
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.
New Option to Omit Documents from CAS API PDFs
- GET /v1/applicationForms/{applicationFormId}/organizations/{organizationId}/programs/{programId}/applications/{applicationId}/pdf
For example, to exclude documents from a "School" PDF, the URL would be:
GET /v1/applicationForms/{applicationFormId}/organizations/{organizationId}/programs/{programId}/applications/{applicationId}/pdf?pdfType=school&excludeDocs=true
New Subscription Path Tokens <lastEvent> and <lastEventDate>
Due to the dynamic nature of event processing, it is possible for data payloads to be delivered out of order under high-load situations. Hence, the delivery time / timestamp is not always reliable. This feature addresses this issue by adding support for two new Subscription Path Tokens: <lastEvent> and <lastEventDate>. These properties can be appended to filenames and used to correctly order and process the data, in time-ascending order. We recommend using both tokens together, since the <lastEventDate> is dependent on the type of event communicated by the <lastEvent> token.
CAS Applicant Portal Enhancements
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
Cookie Consent Banner
This enhancement will be automatically available for use by CASs on the 3.X platform over the next few months and by CASs on the 3+ platform in early 2026. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
To ensure that CAS complies with cookie consent policies, a new cookie banner appears after an applicant logs into their application. Applicants can choose to accept all or specific cookie policies or reject them.
Othot Enhancements
Note that these enhancements are planned to be released on December 6, 2025.
If you have any questions about these features, contact a member of your account team or support.
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
New Features and Enhancements
Dashboard Editing Experience
Dashboard owners can now edit the signal schedule and user group settings after creation, eliminating the need to clone and replace dashboards to make updates. This improves flexibility and streamlines dashboard management for a smoother user experience.
Prediction and Forecasting Transparency and Flexibility
In previous releases, updates were made to allow for better tuning and flexibility of the enrollment predictions based on key dates and deadlines for each client institution. This enhancement allows the deadlines used for forecast predictions to be displayed in dashboard widgets for enhanced transparency around predictions.
Additionally, the Othot team has implemented a new feature that allows for the configuration of a smoothing factor for future impacts in each client's forecasted enrollment prediction, giving more control and flexibility over how feature contributions are scaled.
Flexible Financial Aid Formulas
This enhancement introduces formula sets which bring greater flexibility and efficiency to how financial aid formulas are calculated and downstream features are derived and managed by Othot Data Curation and Data Science teams – ultimately enabling more efficient and tailored financial aid modeling for clients.
UI/UX Redesign
Significant backend work from our engineering and design teams has been completed to support an all-new user interface, which will roll out in phases starting in 2026. This redesign is focused on making it easier and more intuitive for users to interact with the platform.
Core Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue in sensitivity to match what-if values.
- Fixed a memory related issue in Sensitivity report that caused performance issues.
- Fixed an issue where matrix was putting grouping buckets in wrong category.
- Fixed an issue where grid was not saving recent views.
- Fixed an issue that caused the individual student page not to load in some cases.
- Fixed an issue that hid part of the variable names in a what-if.
- Fixed an issue that caused rows to be incorrectly sorted by column values.
- Fixed an issue that utilized “Current Base Prediction” instead of the “Rewind Phase Prediction” when calculating the Delta.
- Fixed an issue that caused "=" operator in text-to-query queries to not work properly.
Universal Advisor Portal Enhancements
Updated Advisor Documents Report
This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs that collect final decisions. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact your Account Manager for more information.
You can now access the Advisor Documents report that contains preliminary decision data for the 2024-2025 cycle. Only applicants who authorized release of their data to advisors at their primary college attended are included in this report.
WebAdMIT Enhancements
The following enhancements are now available in WebAdMIT. If you have any questions about these features, contact a member of your account team or support.
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
Prerequisite Criteria Fulfilled Added as Scorable Field in Scoring Models
This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs using Prerequisite GPAs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
For CASs that have Prerequisite GPAs in WebAdMIT or prerequisites in the CAS Configuration Portal, the Prerequisite Criteria Fulfilled field is now available in Scoring models. This allows you to award points based on an applicant’s completion of your desired prerequisites, separate from their calculated prerequisite GPA. Note that this field has a Yes/No value, and you must build a point table to use it with your scoring model.
Link to Jump to Deferred Applicant's Page in Next Cycle
This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs using the On-Demand Transfer of Deferred Applicants feature. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
In 2025 Release 10, an On-Demand Transfer of Deferred Applicants feature was introduced, which allows you to defer applicants as needed, separate from the Transfer Settings or Liaison-assisted Deferral Processes.
With this release, a new View link has been added to the Deferrals subpanel under the Designations panel. If you deferred an applicant, you can click this View link in their original application to quickly jump to the applicant's deferred application in the new cycle in WebAdMIT. This eliminates several manual steps, including navigating to the next cycle and searching for the applicant within that cycle.
Coming Soon: Automatic Deactivation for Inactive Accounts
This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
In early January 2025, users who haven't logged in to WebAdMIT in the past 18 months will have their accounts deactivated. This enhances the security of WebAdMIT and ensures only current and active users can access applicants and admissions data. To learn more about this and review best practices, visit the Managing Users page.
New Documentation for Outcomes
Please review the list of new reference guides, all accessible in the Liaison Outcomes Help Center.
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| Preparing for a New Application Cycle |
When it's time to launch a new application cycle in Outcomes, there are several key steps you'll want to take to ensure a smooth transition. This guide will walk you through the new application cycle (rollover) process and recommended planning steps. |
Ongoing Maintenance
Please review the list of scheduled downtime/maintenance and product updates.
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Sandbox Environment Refresh |
December 4, 2025 |
The WebAdMIT Sandbox environment (uat.webadmit.org) was refreshed with current (cleansed) production data and program configurations. Any test exports, custom fields, etc., in the current sandbox were overwritten. The next sandbox environment refresh is scheduled for January 1, 2026. |
Coming Soon!
Please review the list of upcoming events, including product updates and regional training opportunities.
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Shared Lookup Table Updates for Spring 2026 |
March 2026 |
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. New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in March 2026 (subject to change). Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information. |
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CAS 3+ Upgrade |
2026 |
Liaison is excited to announce that in the 2026-2027 application cycle, all of our Centralized Application Services (CAS) will be upgraded to a new, mobile-first, and modern applicant portal that we call CAS 3+. Visit the CAS 3+ Upgrade page to learn more about its key benefits and a preview of the upgraded application. |
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