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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Awards/Honors/Scholarships and Licenses/Certifications are all set in the source format going forward.
GPA Data
Replacing 0.0 with blanks
Initially uploaded on 10/7, but data was still flowing, so did a final pass after data freeze; 10/15/2024 complete --re-run on 10/15 to pick up any stragglers
last 199 import is ready to upload
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.
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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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Local & Last 45 gpa data
This is not available on the API; it is available as a webadmit export.
RR has asked for all of the Last 45 gpas to be brought over, although we have not done that previously; she believes the logic in her formula spreadsheet will handle it.
There are a handful of students who are missing GPA data from the API because they were missing transcripts, never verified, or something. Those can easily be found with the ‘Missing GPAs’ query.
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.
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