All data/reference files: TUV VMCAS API 2024-2025 updates
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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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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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There is no way to map a number field to a blank value, so the spreadsheet has to have the 0.0 values removed, then updated via the Replacing 0.0 in GPA entity rows with blanks source format. This matches the values on GPA GUIDS, VMCAS ID and Slate app ID’s. [That’s a bit wack, mixing the Slate app ID and the VMCAS person ID values, but it works.]
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Schools
Apparently the country code mapping was never done? No one actually seems to care, either--Ross University School of Vet Med (in St Kitts and Nevis) has been being imported as in the US and no one has said anything. This data has been updated for the 2025 group; the mapping needs to be updated going forward.
- ISO-2 county codes need to be updated
(https://tufts.box.com/s/kd5c6tmldu1zvtnaogzovoxjfnfa8f9y )
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I believe there are conflicts between the ISO 2 list and the translation codes that are set in Slate; shoudl look into that as well.