By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services It’s that time of year again. Colleges everywhere are flooding high school seniors with FAFSA messages and reminders. And just like last year, my Inbox has been filling up with questions from admissions and Marcom leaders asking for …
Enjoy Your Weekend More With This Planning Hack
by Mandy Green, Busy Coach Let me let you in on a little trick that I learned from Darren Hardy, author of The Compound Effect (which I would highly recommend reading). I used to prepare for the week on Sunday. The problem was that I ended up thinking about the upcoming week all weekend long. …
Getting Your Prospects to Choose You Over the Competition
Having eaten my share of airport restaurants breakfasts over the last two decades, allow me to make an observation: There isn’t anything remarkable out any of them. In some respects, that’s fine, because you’re usually eating an airport breakfast in between flights, or during a delay. There isn’t …
5 Consequences of Inconsistent Recruiting Communication
Your prospects have grown up using text messaging as one of the primary tools for communicating with their friends.That has certain consequences for you as a college coach who is recruiting this generation of prospects.Of all the mistakes you can make as a college coach engaged in that …
Making Your Financial Aid Conversations Less Confusing
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services In our ongoing survey research, the majority of students continue to list financial aid and specifically the FAFSA as the hardest and most confusing part of the college search process.What concerns me even more is, outside of …