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 …
Make Your FAFSA Messages More Personal
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Colleges and universities everywhere are currently flooding high school seniors and their families with FAFSA emails, letters, postcards, and text message reminders.Despite all of that, as of about two weeks ago, the FAFSA completion …
Ask Your Admits These 6 Questions
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Most of the training workshops and fireside chats that I've led over the past month have included a discussion about the different groups of seniors that the admissions counselors were currently working with.One of those groups is …
Unprecedented College Search: Results From A Survey of The Class of 2021
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services This high school senior class has had an experience unlike any in history, and we wanted to hear how they're feeling about their college search. Over 31,000 of them responded to our survey - a joint project between Niche and Tudor Collegiate …