All data/reference files: TUV VMCAS API 2024-2025 updates
Biodemo
- Review Complete for 2024-2025 cycle
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:
And then map to sex:
Addresses and Contact Info
- Review Complete for 2024-2025 cycle
https://vet.admissions.tufts.edu/manage/query/query?id=80377095-a25b-4184-b1a9-0eb3e8649a05
Note that when the expiration date for an address is past, it will not be included in the ranking, and will not show on the student record.
Spot check that the missing address have dates
Spot check Slate and VMCAS are in alignment
Essays and Other Multi-line Text fields
Make sure all of the supplemental questions are mapped for the new year.
Personal Statement
Three month gap explanation
Disciplinary Explanation
Performance Explanation
Candidacy Changes since previous application
Previous Professional Degree Enrollment (new!)
Tufts essay (or video)
Why Tufts?
Additional Information
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)
WebAdmit Query: 75- Essays and Multiline Text Fields (which lines up with the Slate review query 75. App Review - Essays and Multiline text boxes
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
Animal, Veterinary, Research {{YYYY}} VMCAS to Slate Animal Experiences
Volunteer, Non-Animal, Extracurricular {{YYYY}} VMCAS to Slate All
These generate ZIP files, which can be matched to the source formats
Experiences - Animal
Experiences - Employment
Experiences - Extracurricular
Experiences - Research
Experiences - Vet
Experiences - Volunteer
Awards, Honors, Scholarships should have come in on the feed, but I left out the dates; those have now been added.
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!).
For both Awards and Licenses to correct them I did the same download and upload
GPA Data
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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