by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions ServicesLast week at the NACAC National Conference, I made it a point to connect with a lot of high school counselors. I got their thoughts on a number of topics including the level of value that both they and their students perceive high school visits by …
How You Can Get Your Prospects to Talk
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions ServicesI’ve been getting a lot of questions lately on how to get prospective students to open up and why it’s such a challenge.Let me start by giving you the good news – If you take the information I’m about to give you today and apply it …
How to Evaluate NCSA Prospects Online
With the Fall recruiting season fully underway, some coaches who are trying to ramp-up their use of technology in recruiting look at their competitors using NCSA and still wonder, “What’s the big deal?” Simply put, there’s no other technology resource on the planet more complete when it comes to …
13 Things Your Recruits Told Us That You Need to Know
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions ServicesWhen an admissions department brings us to campus to lead one of our popular training workshops, part of what we do is conduct extensive focus group research with their student body, specifically their freshmen. The questions we ask produce honest, …
Go Wireless
Ken Whittaker, Front RushLast Wednesday marked what us nerds call the “Quarterly-Apple-Head-Scratching-Event.” Okay, nobody calls it that (I just made it up, could you tell?). Now as a mobile developer, I obviously have an inherent interest in what the company has brewing, and what direction …