By Jeremy Tiers, Vice President of Admissions Services 2 minute read Even though it’s not an easy or fun topic to discuss, we both know how important the “money” conversation is when it comes to any student’s college search. That brings me to my first tip – Do not wait for a student or …
4 Common Recruiting Questions And My Answers To Them
By Jeremy Tiers, Vice President of Admissions Services 2 minute read The last couple of weeks I’ve received some great questions from admissions counselors who are part of our newsletter community. Each is a fairly common situation this time of year, so I thought I’d share their questions along …
How To Start Proactive Conversations About Financial Aid
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 …