By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute read If you’ve been recruiting students for more than a few months, my guess is you’ve encountered a couple of phrases that you’re tired of hearing. “I need to think about it” and “I’m not sure” are popular answers from …
Advice To Help With Incomplete Apps
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute read Despite your reminders, there’s a good chance you’ve still got a decent number of students who have incomplete applications or missing materials. Something’s wrong, right? Maybe, or maybe not. For some it’s a …
Why Adding Student Notes In Your CRM Matters
By Ethan Penland, Director of Admissions Services 4 minute read I once had a leader that would echo, constantly, “Make sure it’s in Slate.” What they were referring to was any time I had a conversation or interaction with a student, notes needed to be added into our CRM. When I became a …
Do You Know What They’re Thinking?
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute read During the college search process, a student’s outlook and mindset is continually changing. How are you keeping up with it? It’s important that you constantly ask different kinds of direct questions so you can …
12 Thoughts To Start Out 2022
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute read The Christmas holiday break is a popular time to plan out new goals or reflect on the past twelve months. With 2022 upon us, here are some of the things I’ve been thinking about most when it comes to the Higher …
Ideas To Elevate Your Mid-Year Training
By Ethan Penland, Director of Admissions Services 4 minute read As you begin a new year, there is still plenty of uncertainty ahead of what the latter half of this recruitment cycle will bring. Whether it's uncertainty about the impact of the new variant, the uncertainty of how recruitment …