Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

What are the most pressing issues enrollment leaders have, and how can strategic enrollment planning address them? As we increasingly function as if we are in a post-pandemic environment, most of us are still trying to figure out what the new normal is going to look like.

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Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

And we, as higher education professionals, have a great opportunity to adapt and centralize the student journey. So, how do we meet these students, like Sally, where they are? Enrollment focused, rather than being driven by lead generation We focus on enrollment data and not just lead generation. Meet RNL Enable.

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Ruffaloni

MARCH 28, 2024

At RNL’s recent Graduate and Online Innovation Summit, I had the chance to sit down with Stephen Drew, RNL’s Chief AI Officer , for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI is going to change how we do and what we do in higher education. and “What will come next for AI in higher education?” What is AI?

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Enrollment Builders

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Institutions often ask: Why do only 8% of our leads convert into students? We spent an enormous amount of energy and resources on generating new leads for my admissions team. So what happened to the other 92% of prospective students we generated?

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Ruffaloni

OCTOBER 26, 2023

What seemed to be missing in the story is the fact that increased apps and declining enrollment is a sign of either: poor quality leads ineffective conversion slow admittance policies a combination of all of these. So what is the problem? What do these institutions have in common? What to do? How did you do?

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Koodoos Learning

MARCH 15, 2024

It might sound harsh, but my mentor’s feedback was exactly what I needed. What privileged 17-year-old me didn’t know was that phrases like “secluded suburbia” and “major social issues at play” showed readers that I thought I knew what I was talking about. Elizabeth Hoyt at FastWeb very frankly writes, “We get it.

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Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

To celebrate the release of our 2023 University Family Engagement Report , we held a webinar and were joined by an enthusiastic group of professionals who wholeheartedly answered our polling questions during the webinar ( you can watch the webinar on-demand here ). In fact, we firmly believe (and our attendees agreed!)

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Ruffaloni

MARCH 28, 2024

We aimed to shed light on the unique stressors, coping mechanisms, and institutional factors that shape the psychological well-being of graduate students. We also sought to investigate the intricate relationship between courseload, financial stress, and interpersonal relationships in shaping the well-being of graduate students.

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Ruffaloni

MARCH 28, 2024

Institutions working with an OPM are operating in a black box with little to no transparency into how the OPM is doing what it is doing for the institution in what was supposed to be a partnership. Most schools, in my experience, have no idea what it takes but need to.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Donate to a local non-profit, take your mom out to lunch, Venmo me, basically do anything with it except what the seniors just did. How do you know what to plug into a Google search if you haven’t taken time to reflect on what you value, or your hopes and goals for college and life beyond? This ain’t that.

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BestColleges

APRIL 15, 2024

John's knows exactly what it is and what it isn't. We tend to draw students who love books, love ideas," Benjamin Baum, St. I don't think it's overselling things to say that we might be the most intellectual college in the country." What about electives? It's not trying to be all things to all people.

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

APRIL 8, 2024

We recently had a meeting with several members of a Georgia county school system, and we talked about the issue they were facing of students going to extreme measures in overloading their academic workload. When roughly half of the schools we work with do not report class rank, it kind of looses its importance overall.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 11, 2024

Freshman year does matter to colleges, and you shouldn’t be doing nothing with your time, but you’re also adjusting to high school! Explore What You’re Interested In You can’t know you like something until you, well, learn stuff about it. This is kind of a “duh,” we know, but it’s important to stress it.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

MARCH 9, 2024

Ultimately, we arrived at Pawly. Immediately, recognizing my disinterested and half-hearted effort, she looked at me in disgust (yes, cats can absolutely do that), and walked away slowly, as if to say, “Loser.” I pulled up my boarding pass from the Delta App and noticed that my phone was showing a “SOS message” in the top right corner.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 8, 2024

We’ve been there, we understand. What a time to be alive. Do Not: Underperform In Your Classes Failing classes is bad, duh. We don’t have to tell you that. We don’t want to sound Scary or Intimidating, but we can’t stress enough that every. It’s not too early to figure out what you like! A good idea?

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 5, 2024

These are UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, UCLA, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego, and they have their own way of doing things from start to finish. We don’t know how many opted into the waitlist, but at least 18% were admitted — and possibly as many as double that. We can help.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

For example, instead of posting pictures on social media to simply share with family and friends, we become focused on and consumed by the number of likes or impressions we receive. Why am I doing this? What is driving me? What are you chasing—the grade or the preparation? Again: Why am I doing this?

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BestColleges

MAY 7, 2024

But what if a lifeline existed, a solution colleges could employ to ensure their survival? The pandemic gave colleges a taste of what it looks like when students don't show up, Grawe said, and the results were far from palatable. That population said pretty clearly, Look, there's a reason why we stepped away from higher education.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 6, 2024

We are wise and we know what we’re talking about. We work with students one-on-one to help them figure out what exactly about math is exciting to them. Classes and Books In order to start funneling towards our niche, we have to start learning. Let’s first define what we mean by meaningful.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 23, 2024

We learn at a young age that it’s not polite to talk too much about ourselves, lest we come off like a show off or a braggart. But you can do it. So how do you determine what you want to say? Fortunately the most recent Common Application prompts do a fairly good job of helping you to focus on yourself.

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

About 20 minutes after we release decisions, an email will go out to students who have not already checked their status letting them know a decision is available on their status page. We want to be able to have a more in-depth review of you, including short essays, activities, recommendations, etc.

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While academics are still key in all of our reviews, and especially in EA, the overall competitiveness of the applicant pool means we need to look at a wide range of things in our review. For a large number of EA files, we will be looking at everything in the file (including the activities and essays) during the EA review.

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CTK College Coach

MAY 3, 2024

Here at CTK we are opening our calendar to accept college essay students for Christina, Rachel, and Stephanie. We are kicking off the season now both because it is great to complete the essay early– you and your student will be relieved– and because our calendars are so booked by late summer that we often cannot accept new students.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Stats do not guarantee slots. They knew no matter what decision they made it would be contested, debated, ridiculed, and challenged. I can’t tell you how many folks in that room were wearing quarter-zips or On Cloud shoes, but I can tell you what they were thinking, “Why couldn’t we have expanded to 12 teams this year vs. next?!”

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

MARCH 15, 2024

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available today, March 15th, at 4 PM ET. Congratulations to all of the freshman who were admitted and we look forward to you becoming part of the Bulldog Nation. Congratulations to all of the freshman who were admitted and we look forward to you becoming part of the Bulldog Nation.

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Colorado State University

DECEMBER 22, 2023

What about test scores and transcripts? The good news is this: If the question is there, we likely have the answer. The good news is this: If the question is there, we likely have the answer. More good news: We’ve got a helpful guide to narrow things down. Think it’s not time to check out our content?

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 20, 2024

Because it’s such an open-ended topic, it attracts a lot of attention from high school students who are trying to decide what they want to study in college. From wanting to go to medical school to doing research on new diseases, the possibilities for a biology student are endless. Biology is competitive.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 1, 2024

There are more tools and tips that can help you get into UChicago as an international student, though, and we break them down below. We make applying to college easy. What is UChicago looking for from International Students? Courses + Grades The University of Chicago doesn’t do boring. So, is it all about grades?

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It might feel like sophomore year is too early to start thinking about what you want to major in, but we promise this is the exact right time to start. In order to be a really strong applicant, it’s in your best interest to start exploring history and figuring out what exactly excites you about it. So how do we do that?

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Extracurricular Internship Applications Programs 52

The Koppelman Group

APRIL 27, 2024

We want to help by breaking down the most important things to do if you hope to get into USC. What is USC looking for? The first is a blog called “what we look for,” and the second is an annual document called the Common Data Set. We are going to use both here to get a full picture. showcase who you are.

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Admissions.Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience? What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more? Why does it captivate you?

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

DECEMBER 15, 2023

About 20 minutes after we release decisions, an email will go out to students who have not already checked their status letting them know a decision is available on their status page. We want to be able to have a more in-depth review of you, including short essays, activities, recommendations, etc.

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Admissions Financial Aid Out-of-State GPA 111

BestColleges

MAY 8, 2024

What's more, Sophia even has her own social media accounts, including Instagram , which she describes as a collaboration with my AI dialogue system and social media team. Grace doesn't do public appearances, Grant said. We would love for everybody to experience this. We would love for everybody to experience this.

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Admissions Village

MARCH 24, 2024

Ivy Day is filled with disappointment because, hello, the HUGE majority of kids do not get accepted to these colleges. Kids are asking, “What more could I have done?”. We have spent a lot of time talking about all the things students can do to help their chances of admission to highly selective colleges.

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Princeton College Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become." – Heraclitus In the competitive realm of college admissions, it is your ability to reveal and demonstrate your character that becomes the silver bullet, helping you stand out while separating you from all the rest. So, what does that mean?

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

MAY 3, 2024

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Do I think they should be fined? Is that what this blog is about? Do I think Christmas is the global warming of Holidays? Do I understand even mentioning global warming may be a way to lose readership/followers/applicants? The question they should be asking is “What is missing?” Anyhoo… it’s October.

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