By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services I ask about them during every single workshop I lead and the answer is almost always the same. Most admissions counselors don’t enjoy making phone calls to prospective students. Some even tell me, “I absolutely hate them.”I’m going …
Avoid Saying This in Your Emails, Calls and Texts
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Words matter. Words compel us to do things, and they also bore us to the point where we stop paying attention or listening. This is especially true for every prospective student that you’re trying to enroll right now…traditional undergrad …
How Many of These 29 Things Are You Doing?
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services There are a number of different ways that you can create better recruiting stories. While I was doing some fall cleaning, I came across a bunch of them in various documents and notes on my MacBook.My first thought was to pass along …
Evaluating All Those Phone Calls
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services It’s official: Making phone calls to prospective students (and parents) continues to be a hot topic, and we’re not even two weeks into 2018. Last week my inbox had a handful of emails from admissions counselors and Directors seeking …
More About Phone Calls to Prospective Students
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Back in June I wrote an article about the value of phone calls in student recruitment. That article included some interesting statistics and direct student quotes about phone calls from incoming and current college freshmen. It’s since …