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Six Key Strategies for Onboarding New Families at Your Private School

Enrollment Catalyst

Primarily, your goal is to ease the stress and anxiety for new families transitioning to your school. These families are not yet familiar with your school’s environment or community, and for some, this may be their first experience with private education. This is crucial for several reasons.

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What Are Pre-Orientation Programs?

BestColleges

College pre-orientation programs help incoming first-year students adjust to campus life. Pre-orientation programs are voluntary and occur the summer before a student's first fall semester. Types of pre-orientation programs include those that help students with mental health challenges.

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COVID’s Impact on Students’ Transition to College

Discovery College Consulting

In another post , we addressed the implications of these issues for colleges, which are now educating students whose high school years were disrupted by Covid. This article prompted me to wonder if my Class of 2023 students felt that Covid has affected their transition to college.

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12 Strategies to Deploy While We Await the FAFSA and Subsequent ISIR Arrival

Ruffaloni

The Department of Education has also put out some great videos that could be wonderful resources. While the FSA ID education piece is important for students and parents, determining the financial impact is potentially the most important for you and your campus. Do your analysis on your returning students with the NAFSAA SAI tool.

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Parents: Empower Your College Student to Use Campus Resources and Services

Discovery College Consulting

Familiarizing themselves with campus resources and being willing to initiate and appropriately utilize those resources is an important aspect of transitioning to college. There will be a period of transition for most students. Student clubs and organizations, fitness centers, intramural sports, marching band, performing arts.

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Stemming Summer Melt and Improving Admissions Yield and Social Media for Universities

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

The top reasons for summer melt are concerns about cost, social anxiety arising from moving to a strange environment, and informational barriers related to understanding various registration, housing, and orientation processes. Private social networks help students interact with peers and upperclassmen to ease the transition to university.

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Fitting in as an Older College Student

Solomon Admissions

According to the , Department of Education , enrolled adults ages 20-34 are usually in college or graduate school, and young adults ages 18-19 are typically transitioning to college education. Age should not be the factor that stops one from achieving their educational goals.