Release 12 – January 5, 2025

New US DAT Scoring Scale

For CASs that accept US DAT test scores, this enhancement must be approved by the CAS association or UniCAS client for use in the current cycle. If activated, this enhancement is available for all participating programs. CAS association and UniCAS clients: contact a member of your account team for more information or to enable this feature.

Starting on March 1, 2025, the US Dental Admission Test's (DAT) scoring scale is changing from 2-digit to 3-digit scores. Liaison is establishing a new US DAT (After Mar 1 2025) test type that allows applicants to report their test results on this new scale. The existing US DAT will also be renamed US DAT (Before Mar 1 2025) to help admissions teams differentiate between the old and new tests.

For CASs that accept official US DAT scores, when official scores are requested, the old scores will be sent in the new 3-digit scoring format. This will allow you to easily compare tests taken before and after this change. Applicants will need to request their DAT scores again when applying in future cycles.

CAS Applicant Portal

Applicants can self-report both the US DAT (After Mar 1 2025) and US DAT (Before Mar 1 2025) under the Standardized Tests section in the Academic History quadrant. These tests also appear in the full application PDF.

CAS API

A new JSON node "DAT2025" is available under the ReportedTests node.

WebAdMIT

You can view the new US DAT (After Mar 1 2025) test type in the existing Standardized Test panel, DAT subpanel on the Applicant Details page. It is also available in the List Manager, Export Manager, and Scoring under the Applicant Reported DAT (After Mar 1 2025) and Official US DAT (After Mar 1 2025) field categories.

The old US DAT test type field categories have been renamed as well:

• Applicant Reported DAT renamed to Applicant Reported DAT (Before Mar 1 2025)
• Official US DAT renamed to Official US DAT (Before Mar 1 2025)

Note that work is planned to update the Report Manager's DAT Official Scores report to include both new and old scores; check future release notes for updates.

UniCASs Can Exclude Transcript and Verification Requirements for Multiple Colleges

This enhancement must be approved by the UniCAS client for use in the next cycle. If activated, this enhancement will be available for all participating programs in the next cycle. UniCAS clients: contact a member of your account team for more information or to enable this feature.

If a UniCAS requires applicants to submit official or unofficial transcripts and/or have their coursework verified, they can also choose to exclude the application transcript and verification requirements for a single university. This is typically done for the UniCAS's university, as they already have the applicant's academic history. With this enhancement, UniCASs can exclude transcript and verification requirements for multiple universities. This is helpful when a UniCAS has several campuses but central transcript processing.

Organization-level Change Fee Rule

This enhancement must be approved by the CAS association or UniCAS client for use in the current cycle. If activated, this enhancement is available for all participating programs. CAS association and UniCAS clients: contact a member of your account team for more information or to enable this feature.

Question rules allow you to define how applicants interact with questions and answer options. The Change Fee rule can now be built at the organization level, meaning that it can be applied to some or all programs under an organization. This enhancement saves you time, as you can configure a Change Fee rule once for an organization instead of multiple times for each program offered.

You can build the Change Fee rule under the Organization Rules section and select which programs you want to apply it for. By default, all programs will be selected, and you can remove any that you don't want the rule to apply to. You can also activate your organization-level rule per program under the program-level Rules Builder page.

Be aware that organization-level Question Rules must be built on Extended Profile or organization-level questions only.

All Requested Recommendations Visible in WebAdMIT

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.

Applicant recommendation (i.e., letter of evaluation, letter of reference) requests are listed in the Applicant Details page under the Evaluations panel. Previously, only recommenders who had accepted the recommendation request or had a previous account in Liaison Letters, the Recommender Portal, would be listed in WebAdMIT. With this enhancement, all recommendation requests are now listed in WebAdMIT, giving you greater visibility into the applicant's recommendation request statuses.

This enhancement was inspired by user feedback via the Ideas Portal.

Updated IP Addresses for Production Environment

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.

WebAdMIT will have a planned migration of IP addresses for the production (i.e., live) environment. This migration is scheduled for Sunday, January 12, 2025 from 7–11 AM ET and WebAdMIT will be unavailable during this migration.

If you safe-listed the entire range of IP addresses (available on the Technical Requirements page), you do not need to make any changes.

If you safe-listed a smaller set of IP addresses, you should notify your IT department and either safe-list the entire range or the new smaller set. Contact a member of your account team for the smaller set of IP addresses.

Note that the IP address changes impact inbound traffic only (e.g., sending data into WebAdMIT using the WebAdMIT API); IP addresses for outbound traffic are not affected.