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 …
Are Your Admits Giving You These “Buying Signals?”
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services It’s that time of year again for college admission professionals…aka crunch time.Everybody has their list of admitted students who have yet to deposit, and if you’re like most, you’re trying to connect with those students and …
They Didn’t Deposit to Your School Because
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services You can put away the countdown clock and stop checking your deposit portal every fifteen minutes. ‘National College Decision Day’ has come and gone.If you haven’t taken a deep breath and exhaled yet, please do it at some point …
Dealing With Illogical College Decisions
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services“That was completely unexpected!” Those were the words that a good friend of mine told me he thought to himself after having a conversation with an undecided senior at his school’s admitted student day event.My friend doesn’t work in admissions …