By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services College and universities love to throw out facts and figures in an attempt to separate themselves from their competitors.The problem with that strategy is, facts tell, stories sell. I expanded on that idea in last week's article about …
How You Can Help Students With Their College Decision
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services In an article I wrote a couple of weeks ago I mentioned one of the reasons why more students are taking longer to make their college decisions.Too many colleges and universities are trying to skip steps and push prospective students to …
Do You Know These 5 Things About Your Admits?
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services A majority of the staff training workshops I led over the past month had a specific focus on yield. That included an in depth discussion about the different groups of students that the admissions counselors were currently dealing …
Getting Students to Choose Your School Over Their Other Options
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Soon after today’s high school student begins to explore their college options or takes a standardized test, that student and his or her parents/family are inundated by information from colleges and universities – Letters, emails, …
Readers Have Been Asking Me About This
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services May 1 has come and gone. Whatever that particular date meant in your office, I’m guessing that you’re still dealing with a bunch of undecided, admitted seniors. Today I’m going to offer you some advice on how to proceed with that group …