Your Slate for Admission database comes with a Slate-hosted application, a fully customizable online application that allows applicants to submit information, upload materials, and pay application fees.

Application pages

By default, the Slate-hosted application comes with a number of pages that applicants fill out with their information.

These include:

• Instructions

• Personal background

• Enrollment information

• Education history

• Test scores

• References

• Relationships

• Employment history

• Sports

• Activities/interests

• Signature

• Review

If these pages don’t collect the information you want applicants to provide, they can in almost every case be overridden with custom pages.

And, if you don’t see a page listed here that you’d like to see, you can create new ones as needed.

Exploring the Slate-hosted application from the applicant’s point of view

To preview the Slate-hosted application as the applicant would see it:

1. Go to Records.

2. Select the default test record, Alexander Hamilton.

3. Select the Application tab (the default name is [Your University] Application).

4. Select Impersonate > Applications.

   

5. Explore the application as the applicant would see it.

As you build out your application, this is a tool you will likely come back to repeatedly.

Customizing the Slate-hosted application

The pages of the Slate-hosted application are customized with the form builder, a simple drag-and-drop experience that is likely familiar to you by now.

➡️ Next up: The Application Editor

Our first stop in our tour of the Slate-hosted application is the Application Editor, where we’ll see the standard Slate-hosted application pages and learn how to configure them.

📚 Next article in this series: Introduction to the Application Editor