{"id":694,"date":"2016-09-23T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T22:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/?p=694"},"modified":"2016-09-23T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T22:10:38","slug":"new-features-added-to-mgp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/2016\/09\/new-features-added-to-mgp\/","title":{"rendered":"New Features Added to MGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Graduate School released the following new features in MGP on September 7, 2016:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduate Application for Admission<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>File size for upload of transcript and visa documents has increased to 2 MB. Everything else is 500 KB.<\/li>\n<li>The question about U.S. military status separates child from spouse of military veteran or active duty service member.<\/li>\n<li>A question asking applicants the highest level of parent\/guardian education has been added.\n<ul>\n<li>It matches the UW undergrad\u2019s application almost exactly, except graduate degrees are broken out into specific degree types.<\/li>\n<li>This data will be used by the\u00a0Graduate School for program development; it will not be shared with departments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>International applicants (except those expecting an F1 or J1 visa) can now request Application Fee Waivers.<\/li>\n<li>International English Language Testing System (IELTS) has been removed.\n<ul>\n<li>We are phasing out usage of IELTS. IELTS results with a test session date after November 1, 2016 will not be accepted. Any IELTS tests already received by the University will still be available in MyGrad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Language throughout the application that is inclusive (friendly to) of DACA, undocumented students.<\/li>\n<li>Soft deadline message changed\n<ul>\n<li>Font changed to black (instead of red)<\/li>\n<li>Language softened<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>UW NetID can now be established within 1 to 2 business days of application submission. This used to only be available after accepting the offer of admission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Admissions (Unit) Profile<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Application submitted confirmation email now sent from the department email, as entered in the Unit Profile (not sent from uwgrad@uw.edu)<\/li>\n<li>Application Status Page will remain available after 10th day of quarter (it used to revert to submit confirmation page)\n<ul>\n<li>This will allow applicants\/students to view the transcripts they need to submit once the quarter has started (i.e. after 10th day)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Graduate School released the following new features in MGP on September 7, 2016: Graduate Application for Admission File size for upload of transcript and visa documents has increased to 2 MB. Everything else is 500 KB. The question about U.S. military status separates child from spouse of military veteran or active duty service member&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/2016\/09\/new-features-added-to-mgp\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0},"categories":[54,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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