By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 1 minute read You want to find out why a senior who seemed really excited and engaged at a recent college fair or high school visit hasn’t started their application. The common way I see admissions counselors and enrollment …
Tip To Help You Be More Genuine
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute read As humans we value honesty and authenticity from others, a lot. Unfortunately, most prospective students continue to feel like the communications they receive during their college search are copied and pasted to the …
Try This With Admitted Students Who Haven’t Visited Campus
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute read Last week I received an email from an Associate Director who was looking for creative approaches to help increase their number of deposited students. The first thing I encouraged her to do was run a couple of different …
You’re Not Always Getting The Whole Truth
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute read About once a month I get asked by either an admissions counselor or leader if I believe prospective students (as well as some parents) don’t always reveal the whole truth during various college conversations. My …
How You Can Improve The Responses You Send Students
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute read One of the things we’ve learned from tracking tens of thousands of admissions interactions over the past 8+ years is the more a counselor probes and digs, and the longer they can keep a conversation about a particular …
If Students Aren’t Responding, Try This
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute read Before the break and into the new year I’ve been getting questions from my newsletter community about communicating with unresponsive inquiries – especially those who visited campus at some point. As you might imagine, radio …