by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services You can put away the countdown clock and stop checking your deposit portal every fifteen minutes. ‘National College Decision Day’ has come and gone. If you haven’t taken a deep breath and exhaled yet, please do it at some point today. …
Trial Close Questions Will Help You With Yield
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Tell me if this sounds familiar. You’ve got one or more undecided students that haven’t officially told you they’re coming, and they haven’t submitted a deposit either…but you feel really good about your chances. Plus you haven't asked them if …
Are Undecided Students Giving You These Buying Signals?
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services It’s crunch time for college admissions. Schools all over the country are entering the final weeks of battle for this next class of students. And right now I’m working a streak here in the office. Each of the past 17 days I’ve received at least one …
Student Recruitment Tiebreakers
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services It’s that time of year again…you know, the time when students take to social media and share how stressed and confused they are about making a college decision. One student even joked on Twitter this past weekend, “I give up I think I'll make my …
Ask Your Undecided Admitted Students This
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services The question came from a second year admissions counselor who had attended my presentation at IACAC Congress earlier in the day. He found me during the conference social and asked if he could vent about something that was really …
Are You Making This Mistake?
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services A couple of weeks ago I had a Director of Admission reach out to me. She was catching up on a bunch of my newsletter articles and came across one about recruiting communication plans. I came to find out after the fact that she had been worried for a …