Preliminary Decisions let your Review Committee make recommendations or hold decisions on candidates without actually changing their admissions status. Use them as placeholders during the review process, then use bulk actions to commit final status changes when ready.
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- Where do I configure them? Settings > General > Review > Preliminary Decision Types. Type new decisions into the text boxes, click Add Another for more, then Save Settings.
- Do preliminary decisions show up to parents? No. They're internal-only and not parent-facing.
- Do they change a student's status? No. Status stays as 'Review in Progress' until you manually or bulk-change it.
- What if a reviewer changes their decision? Only the most recent decision is logged. If a candidate moves from 'Requires Conversation' to 'Accepted', only 'Accepted' is recorded.
- How do I commit final decisions? Use bulk actions on Admissions > Students in Admissions > Candidates in Review to move students to the appropriate status.
Preliminary Decisions are used within the Review Committee to make recommendations or decisions about candidates without changing their overall status within the Finalsite Enrollment system.  You can think of it as a place-holder until you make your final decisions.  You can set as many different decision types as you want.  To set them, go to Settings–General–Review–Preliminary Decision Types (1).  Here you can perform the following actions:
- To add a review decision, type it into the text box (2).
- To add additional review decisions, click on add another (3) in green.
- Once you’ve set your decision types, click save settings (4) in blue in the upper right.
Once all the students are reviewed and final decisions are made, the school can then use bulk actions within the Admissions List Page–Candidates in Review to move students to the appropriate status.
Important Points about Review Decisions
- Preliminary review decisions are NOT parent facing.
- Preliminary review decisions do NOT change the status of the candidate. Their status will still remain as 'Review in Progress' until you make an individual or bulk status change.
- Preliminary review decisions will only save the last decision set. If a decision changes from say 'requires conversation' to 'accepted,' only the 'accepted status' will be logged.Â
Additional Resources
- Office Hours & Past Session Recordings
- Click here for Online Review Setup Guides and How-To's
- Finalsite Enrollment Blog: Simplify the Evaluation Process
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