By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 5 minute read This week I’ll be in the New York City area to lead my thirteenth and final summer training workshop. As you might imagine, fall travel season has been a popular topic lately, especially as I’ve been speaking with …
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 …
Stop Rushing The Process At The Beginning
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute read I continue to find that many college admissions and enrollment management professionals are, by nature, an impatient, process-oriented group. As soon as you start communicating more with the next group of prospective …
Tips To Help You Start Conversations With Rising Seniors
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 4 minute read While most colleges and universities remain focused on converting admitted students, as well as preventing melt from those who have deposited/committed, there’s another important group that also needs your attention …
Time to Reconsider Your Conversation Starters?
By Ethan Penland, Director of Admissions Services 2 minute read When I first started recruiting students, I thought I had the perfect lead-in into every conversation. What was it you might be asking? Well, it went something like this, “So, what interests you about [my …
Important Fall Recruiting Tip
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute read Whether it’s in person or virtually this fall, you’re going to be making a lot of first impressions. Here’s a question I want you to ask yourself – In each one of those situations, am I going to be predictable or …