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 …
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 …
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 …
It Might Not Make Sense, But
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services It happened again, this time during a staff training workshop that I led for a college in Illinois yesterday.During a break, one of the admissions counselors came up and asked me if his peers at other schools are also dealing with …
If You Want to Rekindle Their Interest
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services This time of year admission departments are either really happy with how their recruiting efforts are going, or they’re frantically looking for ideas on how to re-kindle interest from students who at some point this cycle demonstrated …