By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 1 minute read Here’s a question that multiple admissions counselors have asked me this month: What’s the right language to use in my emails if I’m trying to get an inquiry to actually reply and have a conversation with …
Why Should They Choose Your School?
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute read “You know how you always ask students what make them different? Tell us what makes y'all different. Why should I choose your school over anything else?” That quote from a high school junior appeared in a national …
You Need To Consistently Do This
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 1 minute read In last week’s article, I made the statement that successfully recruiting your next class of students ultimately comes down to consistently doing 10 or 11 little things well. One of the key pieces of data we continue …
Important Recruiting Tip About Parents
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute read Successfully recruiting your next class of students ultimately comes down to 10 or 11 little things. Here’s one that I haven’t written about before, but often discuss during staff training workshops or 1-1 …
Stop Saying These Three Words
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute read Considering how hard it is to get and keep the attention of young people these days it’s important to know which phrases and words to avoid. There are three words in particular that a lot of admissions counselors, …
Two Quick Tips to Personalize Your Emails
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute read This might shock you, but only 14% of high school seniors and juniors we’ve surveyed over the past year feel like the communications they received (or were receiving) from colleges and universities felt very …