Liaison's suite of portals work together to help you collect and manage applications. The CAS application, also referred to as the CAS Applicant Portal, is the system where applicants find and apply to your programs. You receive these applications in WebAdMIT or Liaison Outcomes, where you perform your review processes. The appearance of your program and your requirements are customized in the CAS Configuration Portal, where you establish the program-specific elements that your applicants will interact with. Additionally, your program may use one or more of the following tools and platforms:
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
This enhancement will be automatically available for use in the next few weeks 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 has a new 1-6 scoring scale for each section and overall total score. This new scale is more directly aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). To accommodate this, the following changes were made:
If you have data integrations set up for WebAdMIT or the CAS API, you must review and update them to import the new TOEFL scores into your target system. Be sure to review your target system first so you know what adjustments to make. For WebAdMIT, we recommend adding the new TOEFL fields to your exports. For the CAS API, we recommend mapping the new TOEFL score fields.
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 only get a 4 (on the new scoring scale) for the Reading section). Be sure to review all your templates and imports to accommodate the new scoring scale and capture the data you need.
This enhancement will be automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs 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.
SmartyStreets is a tool to validate mailing addresses. When applicants enter their current and permanent mailing address in the Contact Information section, their address can be validated with SmartyStreets, which helps programs know they can mail materials to applicants at a verified address.
CAS Applicant Portal
When an applicant enters an address that's not in the SmartyStreets database, they can either update it to a verified address or choose to use the address they entered.
WebAdMIT
Two new fields, Verified Current Address and Verified Permanent Address, are available under the Current Address and Permanent Address field groupings in the List Manager and Export Manager. The answer values for these fields are:
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.
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.
Each CAS maintains a list of primary contacts for each organization to refer to when questions arise within the organization, the association, or the Liaison support teams. To more easily identify the role a primary user has within their organization, as well as format their phone numbers, two new optional fields are now available when entering primary contact information:
If needed, admissions users can contact a member of their account team or their association contact to update this information.
Association users: the configuration export also includes these new fields and lists every organization within the CAS, even if it has no primary contacts.
Please review the list of new and updated documentation, 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. |
| National CAS Schedules |
Some institutions participate in multiple national CASs, which are CASs that are affiliated with an association, typically within the health professions (e.g., dental, pharmacy, physical therapist, etc.). If your institution is one of these, you can access important CAS milestones in this document. This document is also available in the CAS Configuration Portal Help Center. |
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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