By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute read Earlier this month I shared an article about the importance of communicating with parents and cultivating those relationships sooner rather than later – especially with the parents of your admitted student population, which …
What Do You Talk About First?
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute read Over the past month I’ve shared multiple articles that contain tips to help generate conversations with this next class of prospective students. One of the most common questions I get every summer is, “What do I talk …
Helping You Personalize Your FAFSA Messages
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 3 minute read It’s October, which means colleges and universities have started flooding high school seniors and their families with FAFSA emails, letters, postcards, and text message reminders. What are you doing to make your …
Make Your FAFSA Messages More Personal
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Colleges and universities everywhere are currently flooding high school seniors and their families with FAFSA emails, letters, postcards, and text message reminders. Despite all of that, as of about two weeks ago, the FAFSA completion …
This Is Always The Hardest Part
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Prospective students (and parents) continue to tell us in our ongoing survey research that the hardest, most confusing part of the entire college search process is figuring out financial aid and the FAFSA. Talking about money and filling …
Helping You Get More Students to Fill Out the FAFSA
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services It’s that time of year again. Colleges everywhere are flooding high school seniors with FAFSA messages and reminders. And just like last year, my Inbox has been filling up with questions from admissions and Marcom leaders asking for ideas …