Re: Nursing CAS

As students and professionals it is YOUR responsibility to keep copies of all necessary documentation in your personal records at home. It is not the responsibility of CAS that you no longer have access to your transcripts, letters of recommendation, licenses, resume, etc. If I were to ask a past professor, unit manager, etc for a letter of recommendation, even if they offered to upload it to CAS personally, I would request a hard copy to file in case I needed it at a later date. As you stated, people move, retire, change institutions, etc all the time, and without a hard copy of all paperwork on file you might be asking for recommendations every time you apply for a new program, job, etc.

Also, it is not a bad idea to ask professors or unit supervisors that you have a good relationship with for a reference letter in case you ever need one when you finish a class or change jobs. This way you have more current references and several to choose from when applying to a new school program or job opening. You can somewhat "tailor" your references to the position you are applying for based on the type of unit that the reference worked in or class they taught.

Good luck. Hard lesson to learn!

@wheeliesurfer

The issue is NursingCAS only accepts official transcripts and recommendations directly from professors/employers, so applicants who are applying to programs that use 2.0 and 3.0 must pay for transcripts and ask the people to provide recommendations 2 times - once for 2.0 and once for 3.0. It does not matter if we have copies on file - NursingCAS will not accept them from the applicant.

It's wildly inefficient and suspect that it has caused delays in application verification. All of my supporting documents have been with both 2.0 and 3.0 for over a month (the last arriving December 12!) and have yet to be verified. Fortunately I have applied to several schools that use native portals, but I am upset that I paid for the transcripts and application fees AND had to ask more of my professors and boss.

It was a big mistake to allow 2.0 and 3.0 to be live concurrently. NursingCAS made extra work for everyone involved in the application process by not fully transitioning to 3.0. Poorly done.

I agree with you yowheez. NursingCAS has made my application process so taxing and has wasted a lot of my time and money through this whole experience. I have been waiting two weeks for my application to be completely processed through the 3.0 system and they still haven't finished!! It took them 10 days to "evaluate" one transcript, which I had expedited to their HQ btw. I am getting anxious waiting for my application to finally be verified in their 3.0 system, whereas with their 2.0 system, it would have gotten the same job done in a fraction of the time. And on top of that, I still have to submit a supplemental application to my program but cannot do so until NursingCAS completely processes my application and forwards it to my program.

Sorry to tell you that even if you save all copies (transcripts, reference letters, etc.) NursingCAS won't accept them, period. NursingCAS requires recent transcripts and letters sent to them directly by the Institutions and people that are providing electronic references. So I do not know what are you talking about when you state "Your responsibility", as NursingCAS changed their so call sofware from a 3.1 to a 3.2 and told me on the phone, that they could not save the information already in their system. Is another way to repeat services, pay more money, waste time, and bother again, and again those people and or institutions providing references.