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17 Questions You’re Forgetting to Ask Prospective Colleges

Grown & Flown

What is the schools retention rate? Schools should be able to provide you with their retention rates, that is how many undergraduate students return to the school the following fall. If retention rates are very low, that may be a red flag and something you want to explore further. How easy is it to switch majors?

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7 Ways Marketing Is Changing for Colleges and Universities

Ruffaloni

George Mason University developed a successful AR campus tour for transfer students , and I expect to see prospective students and their families wandering campus with branded AR glasses on campuses everywhere before long. Our report on retention practices provides very helpful benchmarks and ideas for student success strategies.)

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UChicago Provisional Transfer Offer: What is It?

The Koppelman Group

This summer, UChicago added what weve been calling an ED0 option (more on that later), and recently, we became aware of UChicago offering students who applied ED and ED2 a provisional transfer option. If this sounds familiar to you, youre probably aware of the Cornell Transfer Option. So what gives? So thats probably not it.

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How to Transfer to Vanderbilt 2024-2025

The Koppelman Group

Vanderbilt is also a fairly transfer-friendly school, more so than their peer institutions. They have a overall, first-year acceptance rate of 6%, but a transfer acceptance rate of 19%. Admission as a transfer is still very competitive at Vandy, so lets get into what you need to do to be a competitive applicant.

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Are We Really That Surprised About More College Closings?

Ruffaloni

Peer institutions have readily come forward to offer transfer-friendly options for those students. In both cases, as with any college closings, the result is disheartening to the current state of higher education.It is also never something those enrolled students expected or signed up for.

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Meeting Students Where They Are: An In-Depth Look at RNL’s Enable Service

Ruffaloni

To her surprise, she is contacted within minutes about her interest and is then transferred to an ABC University enrollment coach, whom she will work with for the remainder of her experience. We incorporate enrollment, academic, and behavioral data into predictive retention models to identify which students are most likely to struggle.

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Eligible Community College Students Guaranteed Transfer to Sacramento State’s Black Honors College

BestColleges

Eligible transfer students from 15 California community colleges are guaranteed admission into the California State University, Sacramento Black Honors College (BHC). Eligible students will be able to transfer smoothly into the BHC from Jan. It will have dedicated faculty and staff and a 6,000-square-foot space. 1, 2025, through Dec.