The verification process involves several other of Liaison's processes, including:
Review each of the sections below to learn more about each process.
When official transcripts and foreign evaluations are received by Liaison, they are posted to the applicant's application. The Processing team sorts, opens, scans, digitizes, authenticates, and posts the official transcripts and evaluations to the applicant's application. If necessary, personal information such as social security numbers is redacted. Once the transcript or evaluation is posted to the applicant's application, a Received Date is given. Note that it can take up to five business days for a transcript or evaluation to post to an application from the date we receive it.
Liaison partners with National Student Clearinghouse and Parchment to accept electronic domestic (i.e., US and English Canadian) transcripts. After an applicant places a transcript order, they receive an order confirmation email. The electronic transcript is sent to Liaison, and the Processing team sorts and posts the official transcripts to the applicant's application. Note that using this service does not expedite the processing of transcripts.
Liaison partners with World Education Services (WES), Inc. and Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. to accept electronic foreign evaluations. Applicants request an electronic evaluation and specify which CAS to send the evaluation to. Once WES or ECE completes their evaluation, it is sent to Liaison, and the Processing team sorts and posts the official evaluation to the applicant's application.
If your CAS requires applicants submit official US and English Canadian transcripts, high school transcripts, or foreign evaluations, applicants receive a Transcript Received email once the CAS receives that transcript.
Applicants can also track when transcripts are received under the Check Status tab or Academic Records section in the application.
You can view official transcripts, foreign evaluations, and unofficial transcripts:
Sometimes applicants may submit an updated transcript (e.g., new coursework for Academic Update). If your CAS offers this, then you may want to follow the guidelines outlined in the Identifying New and Updated Applicants page to manage updated transcripts.
There are two types of verification Liaison offers: Full Verification and Verification Lite. These are optional services; contact a member of your account team to learn if your CAS uses verification and, if so, which type.
Full verification is the process of ensuring that all of an applicant's coursework is entered correctly and consistently. Since credit values, grade values, and course subjects vary widely from school to school, programs need some type of standardization so they can accurately compare applicants. This standardization is achieved by using the applicant's coursework to create a standard set of GPAs, ensuring they are compared to other applicants fairly and equally.
Several things happen during verification:
Once verification is completed, the applicant's application status will move from Complete to Verified.
If mistakes are found, our Verification staff will note the changes in the Verified Credits and Verified Grade columns in WebAdMIT's Electronic Transcript panel and any GPAs calculated will use these values. If significant mistakes are found in the applicant's coursework during the verification process, their application will be undelivered (i.e., returned to them for corrections).
In Verification Lite, applicants must submit their official transcripts to the CAS, and then Liaison's Verification team manually enters the applicant's transcript GPA.
A CAS may also allow applicants to enter coursework, but that coursework is not verified; only the transcript GPAs and degrees are verified.
If your CAS uses verification, the process used to ensure all of an applicant's coursework was entered correctly and consistently, then applicants receive an Application Verified email once verification is complete.
Applicants can view their application status, including the Verified status, under the Check Status tab in the application.
You can view an applicant's coursework:
Sometimes applicants may submit updated coursework through the Academic Update process. If your CAS offers this, then you may want to follow the guidelines outlined in the Understanding the Academic Update (AU) Process page to manage updated coursework.
Each CAS determines if they will calculate GPAs and if so, which GPAs they would like to have calculated based on their transcript entry requirements. This is an optional service; contact a member of your account team to learn if your CAS offers GPA calculations.
GPAs you may see include:
*If the CAS does not require any transcript entry, then this GPA is not available.
If your CAS offers verification, then your CAS-calculated GPAs only include verified coursework and are automatically updated when new coursework is verified, such as during Academic Update (AU).
If you believe a GPA was calculated incorrectly:
You can view an applicant's CAS GPAs:
Sometimes applicants may submit updated coursework through the Academic Update process. If your CAS verifies Academic Update coursework, then you may want to follow the guidelines outlined in the Understanding the Academic Update (AU) Process page to manage updated GPAs.