Prerequisite update and transition to entities

Detailed description of desired deliverable:

From a technical standpoint

• migrate off off the delivered xslt pages (realistically, this means custom app pages, but the priority is getting out of the xslt)

• shift custom app fields. There are two options: (1) use Prerequisite Entity (app-scoped), where the 2023 DVM student data is. (2024 was not imported, except for a small test file, but should we ever import it again, this is where it should go.) [It has to be app-scoped because the CAS does not send unique identifiers for their course data]. (2) use the delivered courses module, which are folio, so the courses are persistent across (Slate-hosted) applications. Although the second option is counter-intuitive to the idea of maintaining all of the data in the same place, building as much of it in the way that most directly benefits the student (and that we would do universally if we could), is a strong argument. In addition, TUSMGP (who has the same CAS issues) has chosen to use the delivered courses module for their Slate-hosted applications.

1. use the native courses functionality for Slate-hosted application data; put VMCAS data into application-scoped courses entity

• Immediately, this data needs to be available for reading in the current workflow

  • confirmed that ‘course in progress’ is not necessary

  • IMMEDIATE FIX: use custom .pdfs for MAPP, MCM, and BDVM. (MIDGH not accepting applicants this year; PhD only used the ‘courses in progress’ piece. The prereq.pdf template already existed for the reader, but was only mapped for BDVM.

  • TDVM is test case for new prereq widget and new form for application, which is ultimately the direction we want to go

Research:

The MS and PhD programs have relatively simple prereqs:

• MAPP one year of biology

• MCM two semesters of biology, one of statistics, one of science lab

• MS IDGH two semesters of biology, one of statistics, one of science lab, one of chemistry

It is the TDVM and BDVM that have the full list that matches the VMCAS list:

• one year of bio with lab

• one year of gen chemistry with lab

• one year of org chemistry with lab

• biochemistry

• genetics (unless included in biology)

• one year of physics

• one year of math (may include stats)

• one year of English composition

• one year of social/behavioral science

• one year of humanities/fine arts

This is currently built via xslt files with a drop down for each subject in each area:

Open

for the sciences, it does require the selection of lab versus lecture

There is also the ‘Review Coursework' Summary sheet, which is part of both TDVM and BDVM--it does not appear until after clicking the 'Continue’ button at the bottom of the Prerequisite Coursework page, but it looks like this:

Open

https://vet.admissions.tufts.edu/manage/database/file?pg=0 /apply/round/app_review_coursework.xslt but does not require this functionality if the page where student enter their courses looks more like this

These are displayed to the Readers via custom .pdfs in the format apply/round/*prereq.pdf

[when this is transitioned to portals, these .pdfs will still potentially be useful as an option for students to see their applications upon submission/be included in an admin .pdf]

Outcome: