Niche

APRIL 24, 2023

Want to keep updated about the blog? With the upcoming Supreme Court decision around using race in admissions looming this summer it’s important for colleges to proactively find ways to maintain their gains through incentives for low-income and first-generation students, among whom underrepresented minorities are overrepresented.

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EAB

JULY 18, 2023

Blogs The Case for ChatGPT: Leveraging AI for Admissions Tasks How to use AI to save time and be more efficient (with 10 starter prompts) It’s official: now is the time to learn about AI. How to use ChatGPT First, head to openai.com and create an account. Feel free to be direct with what you need help with.

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Niche

JANUARY 17, 2023

Want to keep updated about the blog? Much has been said (and written) about the tension between serving current and prospective families with school websites. While more prospective family-facing content is coming to the forefront (hooray!), What do they want or need to know? And what do you want them to do?

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 31, 2024

As one of the members of the r/ApplyingToCollege community so eloquently and appropriately put it: “Not getting into the school you want f*cking sucks.” And here’s what I’ve learned. Waitlist Blues: Being waitlisted leaves you feeling kind of limbo – like what do I do with this information now? That’s what feelings do.

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Niche

APRIL 25, 2023

Want to keep updated about the blog? In 2022, the K-12 Virtual Enrollment & Marketing Summit started with one big idea: we wanted to create a virtual event where school marketing, communications, and enrollment professionals could come together across the industry for a day of learning—for free. Sign up for the newsletter!

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EAB

JULY 21, 2023

Blogs Why customer service matters for community colleges Learnings and recommendations from EAB’s 2023 customer service survey I just talked to someone in registration, and they told me to call you! What are the features of a “modern student experience,” and how do community colleges stack up?

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BestColleges

DECEMBER 21, 2022

And we need to be proud to be taking up the public spotlight and not making too much of a focus on who we are, but what we're doing.". My first year of high school, nearly five years ago now, I started speaking at city council meetings in my city for solar farms," Bloom says. That's why we need to be out," Bloom shares.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. They’re also more likely to be first-generation, come from families in the bottom half of earners, and delay or cancel their college plans due to financial struggles or caregiving responsibilities. Engage the whole family.

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 6, 2024

I wish I could wave a magic wand and make it all better and make college admissions somehow feel fair and like it makes sense, but I haven’t discovered that power within me — yet, so I’m gonna stick with providing as much information as I possibly can for those who want it and can use it. Don’t check obsessively.

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EAB

APRIL 5, 2023

Blogs Are your admission practices helping or hurting the diversity of your incoming class? Racial, ethnic, and economic disparities in test scores have significantly impacted admission rates for lower-income, first-generation, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx students for years. appeared first on EAB. If no, why not?

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 31, 2023

As one of the members of our community so eloquently and appropriately put it: “Not getting into the school you want f **g sucks.” And here’s what I’ve learned. Waitlist Blues: Being waitlisted leaves you feeling kind of limbo – like what do I do with this information now? Basically, what you resist, persists.

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Admissions Mom

MAY 1, 2024

Baby Tree Metaphor Now, I really hope there aren’t any botanists out there to call me out on the details of this story because anyone who knows me can tell you I’m no scientist, but I am a former English major and English teacher, so I love a good metaphor, and when I first heard this story, it struck me, and it stuck with me.

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Tex Admissions

DECEMBER 10, 2022

I wanted to run into the common's area and scream, "It's here! Composing this blog post helped me make sense of and find a middle ground to what could be a dawning fundamental juncture in human history. What is ChatGPT? Our Skynet overlords!"

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If your goal is to boost brand awareness or reinforce your brand identity with storytelling, then you’ll want to focus on creating brand-building videos. Example : As a form of self-introduction, Oxford College has created a short video that welcomes prospects and invites them to discover what the school is all about.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes. Note: The views and opinions in the blog post are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 30, 2023

What can you do? What are “institutional needs”? What are "hooks"? close to 150,000 students applying for first year admission to UCLA) has fanned this fire. On their end, college admission professionals describe a dramatic increase in what they call “selection pressure”. For context….

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 11, 2023

New research also shows that 29% of marketers plan to enter YouTube for the first time in 2023, compared to 26% who are entering TikTok instead. . Prospects, especially those from abroad, can peek into life in a new environment and discover what it might be like to live there, all in a few seconds: Source: Instagram .

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 10, 2023

I wish I could wave a magic wand and make it all better and make college admissions somehow feel fair and like they make sense, but I haven’t discovered that power in me yet, so I’m gonna stick with providing as much information as I possibly can for those who want it and can use it. So, be sure to take care of yourself.

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Admissions Mom

MAY 18, 2023

So much so that my May Mental Health Awareness Month Post that I meant to post last week is being posted later in the month than I would have liked – and you know what, that’s ok. It’s the old airplane adage – put your own facemask on first before you help others. And it’s totally ok and normal to be stressed out.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 28, 2022

If this is your first time dealing with UT-Austin admissions, buckle up. These late changes are typical for UT Admissions’s long tradition of breaking what doesn’t need to be fixed. They’ve taken the most common student essay cliche of “what starts here changes the world” and made an entire topic out of it. We’ll never know.

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EAB

AUGUST 29, 2023

The two discuss the growth of the non-consumption market, the challenges of recruiting Gen P students—those heavily impacted by the pandemic—as well as unexpected impacts from the recent Supreme Court ruling on ways that colleges engage with prospective students. Transcript [music] 0:00:10.4 I kinda hate that phrase because I think.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Blogs Have Gen Z search behaviors returned to “normal”? What new data tells us about in-person and virtual engagement As the pandemic recedes into the background and in-person interactions become the norm once again, many of our partners have been wondering how much they should continue to support virtual programming and resources.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

Blogs What enrollment leaders need to know about the upcoming FAFSA changes Updated April 2023 As most of us in enrollment know, the FAFSA is set to substantially change for the 2024-2025 academic year. Families have historically been overwhelmed by the process, and many abandon the FAFSA all together.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Blogs 30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s All my attention over the last two years has been spent studying the future of students and student success as we emerge from the pandemic. What I learned suggests that an evolution is already underway, and their insights could serve as a roadmap for other schools to follow.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Blogs 30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s All my attention over the last two years has been spent studying the future of students and student success as we emerge from the pandemic. What I learned suggests that an evolution is already underway, and their insights could serve as a roadmap for other schools to follow.

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