Release 1 – January 31, 2021

    CAS Personal Statement/Essay Prompt Included in Full Application PDF

This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs that use the Personal Statement or Essay sections under the Supporting Information section. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact your Account Manager for more information.

Some CASs have a Personal Statement or Essay section under the Supporting Information section of the application, where applicants can enter an essay in response to a prompt, such as “Share a story of why you are interested in this profession’s career.” Previously, only the applicant’s essay was listed in the full application PDF, not the prompt. This led to some difficulties in remembering how the essay responded to the prompt.

With this enhancement, the essay prompt is now included before the essay in the full application PDF, available in Admissions by Liaison, the Applicant Portal, and WebAdMIT.

    Prelaunch Environment Banner

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 your Account Manager for more information.

If you or an applicant accesses the prelaunch environment  (i.e., a "staging" environment) of the application, you will now see a yellow banner at the top, stating that it is a testing environment.

    Social Security Number (SSN) Encryption Keys

The CAS API now supports multiple Social Security Number (SSN) encryption keys per organization. The encryption key is specified in a new, optional request parameter, X-API-PUBLICKEYID. This can be passed to Application APIs or as a response option in Subscription APIs.

Note that you must provide Liaison your public key before you can use this feature. Once the public key is installed, SSNs will be encrypted through an hourly batch process, and you can use the request parameter to retrieve the encrypted SSNs.

    Data Hold for Select Application Statuses

If you are a CAS Subscription API client, you can now use a new dataHold request property that suppresses data delivery for one or more application statuses (e.g., In Progress, Received, Verified, etc.). This helps you pull data for only the application statuses you need.

    New CAS API and SlideRoom Properties

The CAS API application response model now includes the following properties:

• programsSelected.completionDate
• programsSelected.programLORsReceived

If you participate in SlideRoom, you can also use these new CAS API properties:

• slideRoomInfo.id
• slideRoomInfo.programSelectedId
• slideRoomInfo.slideRoomApplicationId
• slideRoomInfo.submitted
• slideRoomInfo.submittedDate
• slideRoomInfo.firstSubmittedDate
• slideRoomInfo.createdDate
• slideRoomInfo.updatedDate

    Transfer Settings Feature Available to Institution Managers Only

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 your Account Manager for more information.

With this enhancement, you can only initiate the Transfer Settings feature, where templates from a previous cycle are carried forward into the new WebAdMIT cycle, if you are listed as an institution manager and are in the WebAdMIT Administrators Work Group.

Previously, any user with the Configure Software permission set in their Work Group could initiate the Transfer Settings feature. 

This enhancement ensures that the main user at an institution who typically has access to most, if not all, templates, is the user transferring templates forward. For more information about the Transfer Settings feature, including best practices, review our Transfer Settings Guide.