Your perspective on effective recruiting techniques always reach a new level when you experience it personally, through the eyes of one of your children.My daughter is a high school junior, and we took her to visit a college for the first time yesterday.Statistics, research, and all the data …
An Important Campus Visit Question You Need to Answer
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions ServicesIt’s October and that means high school fall break weeks are fast approaching.From seniors who are getting a late start to juniors who want to stay on track because of changes to the FAFSA timeline, many of your prospects are trying to decide …
Parent Frustrations During the Student Recruitment Process
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions ServicesLast week at the NACAC National Conference, I made it a point to connect with a lot of high school counselors. I got their thoughts on a number of topics including the level of value that both they and their students perceive high school visits by …
How You Can Get Your Prospects to Talk
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions ServicesI’ve been getting a lot of questions lately on how to get prospective students to open up and why it’s such a challenge.Let me start by giving you the good news – If you take the information I’m about to give you today and apply it …
13 Things Your Recruits Told Us That You Need to Know
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions ServicesWhen an admissions department brings us to campus to lead one of our popular training workshops, part of what we do is conduct extensive focus group research with their student body, specifically their freshmen. The questions we ask produce honest, …