By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute read Last week while I was leading a training for an admissions team in Georgia, one of the topics we discussed was effective early communication with the next class of students, namely your 2024 inquiries.I shared a …
Lessons You Can Learn From The NCAA Tournament
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 4 minute read How’s your bracket? Probably terrible like most. I feel pretty good that I picked one of the Final 4 teams correctly (UConn).March Madness is always unpredictable, but the 2023 men’s basketball tournament has been …
Try This If You Want More Responses
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute read If the language and tone you’re using in your emails and text messages to different groups of students is overly formal, feels robotic, and is completely transactional, it’s going to be harder to get engagement or …
How You Can Improve The Responses You Send Students
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute readOne of the things we’ve learned from tracking tens of thousands of admissions interactions over the past 8+ years is the more a counselor probes and digs, and the longer they can keep a conversation about a particular …
If Students Aren’t Responding, Try This
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute readBefore the break and into the new year I’ve been getting questions from my newsletter community about communicating with unresponsive inquiries – especially those who visited campus at some point.As you might …