By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute readOver the past few weeks you’ve got new high school seniors, or new transfer students looking at a January start, who have shown interest in your school.They’re interested, but many don’t know what to do or say …
Advice That Will Help You With Inquiries
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute readWhether you have application deadlines approaching or you offer rolling admission, I’m guessing you currently have a large group of inquiries that haven’t taken the next step.If the majority of your communications …
A Mistake I Keep Seeing In Communications
By Ethan Penland, Director of Admissions Services2 minute readDuring the fall each year I love the influx of prospective student communications that come to my inbox. As a “stealth inquiry” for many schools, I get the opportunity to read and see what new campaigns are being created to …
Students Say Talk About These Things First
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute readHow many young people like starting conversations?If you just said “Zero”, “None” or something similar, I get it. Trying to find ways to immediately connect with today’s prospective student is definitely …
Stop Using These Three Words
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute readConsidering how hard it is to get and keep another person’s attention these days, it’s important to know which words and phrases to avoid.There are three words in particular that a lot of admissions counselors and …