All data/reference files: TUV VMCAS API 2024-2025 updates
Biodemo
- Review Complete for 2024-2025 cycle
complete 10/7/2024
Spot check Slate and VMCAS are in alignment: 5. Application Review - Biodemo.
Gender Marker and Identity must be updated from temporary app-scoped fields to permanent homes. Sex and Gender Updates
Upload source file, and run:
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And then map to sex (which needs to be done until we have better fields in SIS):
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Addresses and Contact Info
- Review Complete for 2024-2025 cycle
complete 10/4/2024
https://vet.admissions.tufts.edu/manage/query/query?id=80377095-a25b-4184-b1a9-0eb3e8649a05
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Personal Statement suppInfo.essa.essa0.essayText
Three month gap explanation gapEducationOrWorkDescrip
Disciplinary Explanation persInfo.otheInfo.infr1.explanation
Performance Explanation persInfo.otheInfo.infr0.explanation
Candidacy Changes since previous application cand_change
Previous Professional Degree Enrollment (new!) previousEnrollmentDescrip
Tufts essay (or video) essay
Why Tufts? progMate.progSele0.custQues.quesBloc4.ques2282441.answerId
Additional Information otherRelevantInformation
I missed ‘Why Tufts’! The recovery: map and watch for next file to come in on the feed – Complete
Pull the field from WebAdmit (which has to be done anyway for all of the text fields to re-format for the line breaks '/n' issues)
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**removed all mapping to these fields prior to import, so nothing gets written over
[FOR 2026: set up WebAdmit SFTP for these text fields]
Experiences
Review previous year’s Export file in WebAdmit, and update as appropriate.
Download file from WebAdmit
In production, inactivate source format and update the “remap as of” date
Upload file into proper file format and related folder
Review the field mappings
Update the field fusion to add this cycle’s Program ID
Refresh and Update the prompt value mappings
Update the Round Static mapping
Refresh Test, do import, and review
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License and Certifications (new for 2025!) was mapped, but does not have date. Also found type for group #83 was missing…and there were just 3. Added 11 more, so 14 in total are now available through the API (with dates!).
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Although the data is not being immediately used, the Reader cutoff score does include the gpas. Grad schools will come over as 0.0 if there is no data, so those need to be adjusted to not blow up the formula.
https://vet.admissions.tufts.edu/manage/query/query?id=1e30e28d-9ec6-458f-a9da-e1d0a36db3f1 is the query to find everyone who has a gpa that is 0.0. There is a field in the query that is set to look for the non-blank records, and we could also restrict so it is just the graduate gpas, but there is no reason not to clean those records as well. [I feel like retention policies are a thing to look at the clean up these blank rows across all of the entities.]