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 …
Best Time To Send Your Emails
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Email continues to be the preferred method of communication for students throughout their college search. Back in August I sent you an article that focused on a few things you may need to stop doing before you hit send. That article has …
Don’t Be Afraid To Do This
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services When you ask the right kinds of questions the right way, there's a good chance you’ll quickly discover what motivates a prospective student, as well as their likes, dislikes, wants, needs, fears, and concerns. Having that information makes …
Getting You More Student Engagement
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Last month I wrote an article with a quick reminder if you wanted to improve student engagement from your prospects and inquiries. A number of readers have since sent me basically the same follow-up email asking for more ideas and details …