By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Lately I continue to find myself repeating the same important reminder to admissions counselors – it’s your job to lead prospective students (and their parents) through the college search process from start to finish. Far too many …
Tips So That You Don’t Sound Too Scripted
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Last month I wrote an article about the importance of authenticity in your recruiting conversations. It was the one where I referenced the Shawn Mendes concert that my wife and I took our daughter to. If you missed that one, here it …
Advice About Large Campus Visit Events
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Each year colleges and universities across the country are tasked with large visit events. It’s a recruiting reality that isn’t completely going away anytime soon. This despite the fact that we all know individual visits have a much better …
Advice On Getting Juniors to Visit
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services In any given week there’s a pretty good chance that you can either learn a valuable lesson or stumble upon an important reminder that can help make you a better recruiter or leader. It can come from a television show, social media, or in …
Doing This After the Campus Visit??
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services During a workshop I led last Friday, one of the things we discussed was personalizing the campus visit experience. Part of that has to do with what you do, or don’t do, in the days following a student’s visit (i.e. your post-visit strategy). …
If You Want Them to Visit Campus
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Before you know it school will be back in session. My daughter actually starts third grade on Thursday, which still blows my mind. Where has summer gone? Late summer and early fall continue to be popular times for a lot of rising seniors to …