HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 22, 2025

In this blog, well explore the enrollment-boosting potential of student ambassadors and UGC for education marketing, the benefits they offer, and actionable steps to integrate them into your strategy. This can include photos, videos, testimonials, social media posts, or blogs that showcase their authentic experiences.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 9, 2025

User-generated content refers to any content, such as testimonials, social media posts, blogs, and videos, created by students , alumni, faculty, or other stakeholders rather than your institution itself. Content created by students, such as Instagram stories, TikTok videos, or blog posts, generates far higher engagement than traditional ads.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This week we welcome Assistant Director of Admission, Ashley Brookshire, to the blog. In fact, my hope is that by the end of this blog, the only thing clear-cut for you about the admission process is how unclear it can be. Welcome, Ashley! I used to think a lot of things in life were pretty clear-cut.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This week we welcome Assistant Director of Admission, Danielle Foote, to the blog. Welcome, Danielle! In the college application process, there are a lot of pieces you will likely start and finish within your senior year—writing essays, gathering documents, synthesizing your resume of activities—these are just a few.

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Admissions Village

JUNE 19, 2024

For more about activities read our past blog. For more on demonstrated interest please read our blog on college visits and our senior checklist blog. Please read our blog to understand more about Institutional Priorities. For more on what to include in this letter please read our blog.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In this blog, we’ll explore various effective school email marketing strategies designed to help you increase parent and community engagement. Whether it’s asking parents to RSVP for an event, complete a survey, or check out the school’s latest blog post, the CTA should be easily identifiable and action-oriented.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 8, 2025

This blog, inspired by insights from the webinar Staying Ahead in 2025: Top Education Marketing Strategies for Success , explores the key trends and actionable strategies to help educational institutions thrive in this dynamic environment.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This week we welcome Senior Assistant Director for International Admission, Sara Riggs, to the blog. Case in point, this blog has hundreds of posts all about the college application process (such as this one about course rigor , or this one about essays, or this one about admission decisions ) and very few entries about testing.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 23, 2025

This includes: Blog posts on topics like “How to Choose the Right Private School for Your Child.” Contributing guest posts to education-related blogs. Create High-Quality, Engaging Content Content marketing is an essential component of SEO. ” Parent testimonials and student success stories.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 15, 2025

Optimizing your website and blog content for high-ranking keywords can drive organic traffic from search engines. Incorporating these terms naturally into blog posts, program pages, and FAQs can help your school align with the needs of prospective students, driving meaningful engagement and boosting enrollment.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 23, 2024

If you enjoyed this post, follow us on Instagram @toptieradmissions for more tips and subscribe to our blog for expert insights & college admissions news ! This year were once again collecting early acceptance rate data and trends at selective schools and providing insight and analysis of our own.

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Solomon Admissions

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore the role of freshman-year grades in the college admissions process and provide you with… The post Do Freshman Grades Matter in the College Admissions Process? As a high school freshman, you may be wondering how much your grades from this year will impact your chances of getting into college.

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College Wise

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In this blog, we'll tackle everything there is to know about weighted and unweighted GPA as it relates to the college admissions process. Families routinely ask, Which is better, a weighted or an unweighted GPA? To which I often jokingly reply, Yes. And I realize youre not asking a yes-or-no question.

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Top Tier Admissions

MAY 2, 2025

For a deeper look at the growing appeal of Southern colleges, check out our blog post, The Rising Popularity of Southern Colleges.) Vanderbilt University , located in Nashville, Tennessee, has seen a significant rise in popularity in recent years. The Common Data Set shows an approximate 25% increase in yield over the last 10 years.

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The Enrollment Marketer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

We could write an entire blog post dedicated to the best CMSs or CRMs for higher ed (and we have — comparing one enrollment marketing platform to another), but instead, my goal is to suggest supplemental tools for your digital marketing toolkit.

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Ruffaloni

APRIL 27, 2025

We dive into the strategies mentioned in this blog into more detail. We’ll help you find the right balance for your institution and your audience. Watch our webinar Optimizing Outreach: Effective Practices for Engaging and Enrolling Undergraduate Students. Ask for an enrollment strategy session with our experts.

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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 3, 2025

If you enjoyed this post, follow us on Instagram @toptieradmissions for more tips and subscribe to our blog for expert insights & college admissions news ! Students who develop this skill become more resilient, adaptable, and capable of navigating challenges with a thoughtful, reflective mindset.

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College Transitions

APRIL 10, 2025

Yes, this blog is about how to request letters of recommendation for college from a teacher. But first, lets engage in a mental exercise intended to do something quite strangehelp you imagine your teachers as real human beings. Dont worrytheres a purpose to this! Put yourself in your favorite English teachers shoes for a moment. […]

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Enrollment Catalyst

JULY 24, 2024

In a previous blog post, I discussed six key onboarding strategies post-enrollment before the first day of school. You can access the recording to learn about a comprehensive approach to onboarding new families: Beyond Enrollment–Onboarding K-12 Families for Retention Success.

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

JANUARY 9, 2025

Hopefully this data and the blog in general helps in letting everyone know what UGA looks at in our admissions review, and gives at least some insight into how decisions are made. The total application numbers (EA and RD) are roughly 47,850 , which is up approximately 12% from last year.

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Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

How AI can help AI has proven an effective time-saving tool for content creators, but its primary usefulness is for ideation and outlining, especially when it comes to blogs. Let’s find out. At RNL, our writers use various AI platforms to outline articles. For these types of pages, AI has been less useful.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Example: In the metadata of Randolph-Macon Academy’s blog, the title and meta description have been optimized using the long-tail keyword ‘military boarding school’. Be sure to use specific and relevant keywords that fit your target audience.

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College Transitions

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In today’s blog, we’re breaking down the […] However, they are often confused by just how many different engineering majors are available (not to mention the countless engineering sub-disciplines and interdisciplinary engineering concentrations).

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 4, 2024

If you enjoyed this post, follow us on Instagram @toptieradmissions for more tips and subscribe to our blog for expert insights & college admissions news ! In a time of shifting policies and heightened scrutiny, we remain steadfast in our belief: the admissions process can be transparent, equitable, and—yes—less anxiety-inducing.

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Admissions Village

JANUARY 19, 2025

I want to thank my colleague Meg Joyce for writing this super informative blog, Should I Do A Summer Program? As I sit by my cozy fireplace staring into my snowy backyard, it is hard to imagine it is time for summer planning. Every year at Admissions Village, we notice a new crop of summer programs aimed at high school students.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Whether it’s a blog about your curriculum or updates on on-campus events, WeChat Articles allow you to connect with your audience through in-app content distribution, creating an easy flow between information sharing and engagement.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 2, 2024

If you enjoyed this post, follow us on Instagram @toptieradmissions for more tips and subscribe to our blog for expert insights & college admissions news ! Contact us to learn how we can support you in achieving your academic and career goals.

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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 10, 2025

If you enjoyed this post, follow us on Instagram @toptieradmissions for more tips and subscribe to our blog for expert insights & college admissions news ! At TTA, we believe every student has the potential to achieve their version of successwhether they walk the halls of an Ivy League campus or pursue their passions elsewhere.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The list of questions in this blog, the conversation cards at the party, they are all ways to be engaged, caring, and supportive of each other while giving those juniors and seniors some mental breathing room. We asked her to keep her list private, and we will have a celebratory announcement in spring to tell everyone where she is heading.

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

MARCH 14, 2025

Please remember that this is not a blog where you should post statistics or throw fellow students under the bus. We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available today, March 14th, at 4 PM ET. For those of you who have been admitted to UGA, here is a post for you and a chance to comment. These types of comments will be deleted.

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Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Getting your work out there, whether through school publications, blogs, or national contests, opens up opportunities for recognition, and even career exploration in fields like journalism, creative writing, or communications. Most importantly, it encourages you to share your ideas and connect with others who might relate to your perspective.

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Enrollment Catalyst

JANUARY 22, 2024

Over the years, I have written many blog posts and conducted several webinars and conference workshops on effective retention strategies. However, just because a family is enrolled today, doesn’t mean that they will continue their enrollment next year.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 24, 2025

LaSean was on the blog this time last year with some great advice for prospective transfer students based on her experience in transfer admission. Chad Bryant, our director for transfer admission, was on the blog back in 2018 with some advice , too.

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 22, 2025

If you enjoyed this post, follow us on Instagram @toptieradmissions for more tips and subscribe to our blog for expert insights & college admissions news ! The post What Families Should Know as Colleges Face Federal Funding Freezes appeared first on Top Tier Admissions.

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Top Tier Admissions

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

PSAT to SAT Score Conversion If you enjoyed this post, follow us on Instagram @toptieradmissions for more tips and subscribe to our blog for expert insights & college admissions news ! The PSAT and Merit Scholarships: What You Need to Know PSAT Prep: Top Tips What is a Good PSAT Score? The post What Does my PSAT Score Mean?

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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 2, 2025

The post Colleges With Late Application Deadlines: 2025 appeared first on Top Tier Admissions.

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

MARCH 21, 2025

We admitted a large group of students based on their academic merit, and we also admitted a group of students based on both an academic and holistic review which I outlined in a previous transfer admissions blog post. These types of comments will be deleted.

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