by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Last week at the NACAC National Conference, I made it a point to connect with a lot of high school counselors. I got their thoughts on a number of topics including the level of value that both they and their students perceive high school visits by …
How You Can Get Your Prospects to Talk
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately on how to get prospective students to open up and why it’s such a challenge. Let me start by giving you the good news – If you take the information I’m about to give you today and apply it consistently, …
13 Things Your Recruits Told Us That You Need to Know
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services When an admissions department brings us to campus to lead one of our popular training workshops, part of what we do is conduct extensive focus group research with their student body, specifically their freshmen. The questions we ask produce honest, …
He’s Got the Keys to Helping You Become a Better Recruiter
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services If you just looked at that picture and have no idea who that guy is, I think student recruitment is probably harder for you than it needs to be…especially if you happen to be an admissions counselor who is under the age of 30. During my client …
How to Begin Telling Your School’s “Story”
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Whenever we go to lead one of our On-Campus Workshops for a college admissions department, a big part of our job is helping them to develop their “story”. I think stories are vital to the student recruitment process. And just to be clear, when I say …
Do You Really Know What Your Prospects Are Thinking?
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Prospective students think differently than you do. But you know this…or do you? I ask because a surprising number of admissions counselors that I talk to don’t realize it, and it’s preventing them from becoming dominant recruiters. Many of you are …