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CLEAN "SLATE"
CLEAN "SLATE"
While we receive calls through Dialpad, outbound calls utilize this feature.
What is Slate Voice?
This team handles the behind-the-scenes work to make sure Slate is working and documents are inputted in our system.
What is Processing or the processing team?
This is the cost of what it takes to apply to APU, but it can be waived after attending an admissions event.
What is $45?
These cornerstones are what define Azusa Pacific University.
What is Christ, Community, Service, & Scholarship?
This Malibu-based university is a top competitor for students interested in Clinical Counseling or an MFT license—plus, it has the ocean view to prove it.
What is Pepperdine University?
This section of Slate gives you a list of your daily actions in groups of 5 that need to be completed and changes from day to day.
What are call/task queries?
Need to “phone a friend” but have a student on the line? Use this Google Workspace feature to reach out.
What is chat or Google Chat?
Before students can upload their application items, they must do this
What is submit the application?
After nearly a 5-year absence, the return of “What” is scheduled for Fall 2026.
What is APU football, or men’s football?
Located in La Mirada, this evangelical university is known for its strong theology programs, but also offers select graduate degrees in education and leadership—often attracting students seeking deep biblical integration.
What is Biola University?
When students complete their application, it is sent to “this” and given the status “awaiting decision”.
What is the reader?
This refers to the path students move along from the inquiry pool to being enrolled
What is the funnel?
Unless a deposit is required, students must sign “this” to secure their spot in the program.
What is the “Intent to Enroll” form?
Sharing a similar name to a popular horror villain, this is the mascot of APU.
Who is Freddy Cougar or Freddy the Cougar?
This group of universities is known for their affordability and strong partnerships with K–12 schools, making them frequent choices for students pursuing School Psychology, Counseling, or Teaching credentials.
What is the Cal States, the CSUs, the Cal State Universities, or Cal State University System?
Depending on how Slate is feeling that day, this is the maximum amount of time it should take for updates to populate within Slate.
What is 15 minutes?
This refers to a student who submits their items all at once and is moved forward in the process without the chance to have contact with an admissions rep, typically close to the deadline.
What is a ghost app/applicant or stealth app/applicant?
This item becomes a requirement if a student has not earned their bachelor’s degree prior to their application deadline.
What is a Registrar Verification Letter or Letter of Intent to Graduate?
Once known as University College, this school is now a part of the Azusa Pacific University System.
What is LAPU or Los Angeles Pacific University?
This Riverside-area Christian university has gained ground with its growing online and hybrid graduate programs, particularly in Counseling and Nursing.
What is California Baptist University or CBU
“What happens in ‘here’, stays in ‘here’,” including Slate Summit 2025
What is Las Vegas?
Summer brings hot weather, and “this” which refers to the drop-off of admitted students prior to the start of the Fall term.
What is melt or the melt?
A student who took classes abroad and/or received a degree from outside the US will need this item in order to confirm that they have an equivalent degree.
What is a foreign transcript evaluation or foreign degree equivalency report?
In 1899, APU was founded as the Training School for Christian Workers in this city.
What is Whittier, CA?
Headquartered in San Diego and known for its “one course per month” model, this private, nonprofit university markets heavily to adult learners and offers fully online graduate programs in education, psychology, and business.
What is National University?