By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services5 minute readOver the past two years, our ongoing survey research with students has revealed that a greater number are becoming comfortable receiving text messages from colleges and universities during their search.Let me give …
Time To Stop Doing These Two Things?
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services3 minute readIf you’re reading today’s article, connecting and engaging with teenagers and other young people is probably a core part of your job. Both can definitely be a challenge.A big reason why is the words and language that get …
Check Out What Else These Seniors Said
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Last month I shared the results of how 31,000 high school seniors were feeling about their college search. The massive survey project that we partnered with Niche on produced some pretty eye opening feedback.Along with those insights, I …
Stop Sounding So Scripted
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services If you want to increase engagement and have more productive conversations with prospective students and parents, it’s important to not sound scripted and robotic.I’ve been reminding admissions counselors about this lately as they prepare …
Getting You More Student Engagement
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Last month I wrote an article with a quick reminder if you wanted to improve student engagement from your prospects and inquiries. A number of readers have since sent me basically the same follow-up email asking for more ideas and details …