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Getting Started with Decisions
The Slate decision management system is streamlined and comprehensive, allowing for the release of electronic decisions to application records on an individual or batch basis. Some features of the Slate decision release process: The syste...
Updated : 17 Sep 2025
Decision Release Performance and Scalability
The decision release process within Slate has been designed for scale. It is not uncommon to have single days during the year where more than 500,000 decisions are being released within a short period of time. Slate uses content delivery networks ...
Updated : 09 Mar 2026
Population Permissions - Decision Release
Assign Population-based Decision Release Permissions to Slate users to manage which applications a user is able to access within the Release Decisions tool. For example, population permissions can be used to only display applications to the Psycho...
Updated : 18 Mar 2024
Financial Aid Decisions
All financial aid letters can be uploaded as a single PDF file using a standard source format. The source format can separate the letters for each applicant, and can assign a provisional Financial Aid decision with the uploaded letter. Financial aid...
Updated : 17 Feb 2026
Decision Codes
Often interactions, activities, statuses, decisions reasons, and actual decisions are combined into decision codes. This is an opportunity to consolidate and organize decision codes to be more sustainable by adopting the Slate standard decision name...
Updated : 09 Mar 2026
Decision Reasons
Decision reasons let you consolidate decision codes while capturing high-level explanatory information about a particular decision. Adding a decision reason can be a practical data point when querying decision-related information and narrowing...
Updated : 12 Mar 2026
Decision Reply Form
Accepted applicants can respond to your decision letters using a reply form . We’ll start by making the form that admitted students see once they view the admission letter on the Applicant Status page . Creating a reply form Make this an eas...
Updated : 13 Mar 2026
Decision Notification Status Update Email
The decision notification status update email is used to automatically notify applicants when a new decision letter is available for viewing on the applicant status page. The email will include a link to the applicant status page, where their de...
Updated : 09 Mar 2026
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