VMCAS 24-25 Sex and Gender Updates

Owned by Elizabeth Storrs
Last updated: Dec 04, 2024
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For the 2024 cycle, 2 new application scoped fields were created in Slate:

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to capture the Legal Sex and Gender Identity fields in VMCAS Sex and Gender as a temporary holding pen.

This data was moved to the person-scoped fields on 10/1 (sex and gender 20241002-132730.xlsx), which are what are being used in the Slate hosted applications:

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the “other” text field is only available in the hosted apps, not in imports from VMCAS

The VMCAS mapping was updated to go directly to these fields/prompts on that same day (after the great majority of files have already come through, but there will still be a few to test on).

 

Gender Marker Prompts: M, F, X, Decline to State

Gender Identity Prompts: Male, Female, Transmasculine/Transman, Transfeminine/Transwoman, Other, Non-binary, Decline to State

Gender Identity and Gender Marker cannot flow to Slate as they are until the fields in SIS and the feed (whether through Denodo or Kafka) includes them. Sex currently flows, so it seems least disruptive to continue to populate that field based on Marker and Identity data, then have students confirm their data upon matriculation.

The portal is looking directly at the sex field (albeit as translation values).

 

Sex and Gender

Data Review/Update form for Enrolling Students