By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services A majority of the staff training workshops I led over the past month had a specific focus on yield. That included an in depth discussion about the different groups of students that the admissions counselors were currently dealing …
Getting Students to Choose Your School Over Their Other Options
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Soon after today’s high school student begins to explore their college options or takes a standardized test, that student and his or her parents/family are inundated by information from colleges and universities – Letters, emails, …
Readers Have Been Asking Me About This
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services May 1 has come and gone. Whatever that particular date meant in your office, I’m guessing that you’re still dealing with a bunch of undecided, admitted seniors. Today I’m going to offer you some advice on how to proceed with that group of …
What to Do When a Student Picks Another School
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services It’s late April, and just like last year at this time, a bunch of newsletter readers have reached out looking for advice on how to handle things when their admitted students pick another school. Seeing as how no admissions counselor is …
If You Want to Create Urgency…
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services The topic for my article this week comes from a conversation I had with an Associate Director yesterday at SACAC. He wanted to pick my brain about creating urgency without pressuring his admitted but undecided students. His fear was …
Breaking a Tie Between Your School and Others
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services If everything is pretty much apples to apples, how can you help your undecided admitted students break the tie in your school’s favor? One of the ways that I’ve shared with you before has to do with caring more than your competition. It …