Benefits to the Association/Profession:

• Statistics on the profession: at the end of each cycle, the association will have accurate number of applicants, their number of designations, their matriculation at the schools and their profile (ethnicity, demographic, geographic, and economic). The comprehensive data will serve as a valuable tool to assist the association in applying for grants; support the lobbying efforts for federal grants programs, NIH, and financial assistance relief.
• Assist the association in developing workforce projections, future trends, and recruitment strategies based on an accurate set of data. The association will play the central role of managing career development and minority recruitment.
• Ability to assess and compare statistical data on applicants with other health professions.
• Source of non-dues revenues: The CAS can be a source of substantial non-dues revenues for the association. It is a win-win process that benefits all parties and positions the association to attract applicants and service schools, advisors and the profession as a whole.

To Applicants:

• Major savings in terms of time and money. In addition, the incremental cost of adding an additional school is far less than applying directly to a different school.
• Streamline the efforts needed to send the credentials documents to multiple schools. CAS requires one application, one set of transcripts, one set of letters of recommendations, and test scores, irrelevant to the number of schools designated by the applicants.
• Applicants will access one portal to research and compare the different programs in a systematic and comprehensive way.
• Applicants deal with only the CAS support staff to process their application to multiple schools.
• A user-friendly web application that facilitates the process by allowing applicants to:
  
  
  • Complete the application in multiple visits.
  • Pay in real time
  • Receive tips and help through data validation
  • Provide real-time on-line status about the receipt of the credentials and the status at the designated schools/programs through the applicant portal.
  • Simplified process of integrated e-letters of evaluation.
  • Receive complete instructions (off-line and on-line) to help the applicants print, and organize their documents.
  • Dynamic interaction with the applicants for every step for the process.

To Schools/Programs:

• Increase of the number of applicants: The ease of the selection of schools when filling out the application, coupled by the small increment of selecting an additional school, entices the applicants to add additional schools to their selections to increase their chances of getting accepted. The schools will benefit from the increase in the number of applicants selecting their schools and will ultimately provide them with a diverse and more competent pool of applicants.
• Streamline of the admissions process and reduce administrative cost.
• The schools receive standardized applicant information which facilitates reviews.
• Schools have access to a secure real-time web portal of their applicants only.
• The information received by the schools is checked for authenticity through random checks on letters of evaluations and stringent quality control measures. The transcripts are meticulously verified to reflect accurate GPAs.
• Schools can post their applicants' status on the applicant portal. This will reduce the support staff needed to do clerical tasks and redirect the efforts to marketing and recruitment.
• Schools are provided with a customized health-professions-specific admissions management system. This enhances the schools ability to manage their local parameters and procedures and provide them with ad-hoc and standard reporting tools.
• A common application which is a cultivation of many discussions among member schools will provide an ideal platform for sharing best practices.

Benefits to Advisors:

• The CAS provides the health professions advisors with a secure web portal that allows them to track and better council their students in relation to the health profession association and the schools that applicants have designated.
• CAS can have a tremendous impact in promoting the profession among advisors and foster good will in providing them real-time data on their students.
• CAS provides a platform that facilitates information exchange on individual applicants.