Release 7 – August 3, 2025

New Features and Enhancements

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.

Foreign Evaluation Requirement Status Updated in Check Status Tab

This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs that process CAS-level foreign evaluations. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.

Previously, for CASs that set their foreign evaluation requirement at the CAS-level and accept foreign evaluations but do not require them for applicants to move into the Complete application status, the transcript status was Not Arrived on the Check Status tab. With this enhancement, the transcript status is renamed to Check Program Requirements. This encourages applicants to confirm if their programs require foreign evaluations; if they do, applicants can still request their foreign evaluations through the CAS and have them shared with all their programs.

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This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs that have an electronic WES integration. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.

CASs can partner with World Education Services (WES) to receive electronic foreign evaluations. Applicants can then request their WES evaluations within the application. With this enhancement, the WES logo and website link to request their evaluation have been updated to reflect WES's current branding.

CAS Configuration Portal Enhancements

The following enhancements are now available in the CAS Configuration Portal. 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.

Improved Editing and Adding Answer Sets to Conditional Answer Options Rule

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.

When configuring Conditional Answer Options rules, you can now add new answer sets and make edits to existing answer sets in the same session by clicking the new Apply button when saving a new answer set. Previously, if you made these changes in the same session, your new answer set was deleted. This enhancement ensures you have data accuracy in the question change workflow.

Liaison Outcomes Enhancements

The following enhancements are now available in Liaison Outcomes. 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.

Coming Soon: Fully Redesigned Application Review Experience

Based on user feedback, we're excited to introduce a new application review experience built for efficiency, clarity, and ease of use. To learn more, watch the video below and attend our webinar on Thursday, August 14 at 3 PM ET. Register now!

This update includes a number of features designed to help you navigate and evaluate applications faster and more intuitively:

  • A new Applicant Header that displays contact details and other key information.
  • An interactive timeline with scrolling and zooming capabilities to make reviewing an applicant's academic history easier than ever.
  • A modernized navigation menu with enhanced search, bookmarks, and easy section-to-section navigation.
  • Quick access to key information, fully customizable to suit your review priorities.

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 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.