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Following Up

What are some best practices for follow-up with prospective students? How has your follow-up impacted your results?

Exploring All the Options for your Prospective Student

How do you feel about exploring all of the student's options with them, including those that don't include attending your school?

Discussing Tuition Challenges

How do you currently address the cost challenge with your prospective students? What might you try differently the next time this comes up?

attending other schools

Our mission is to provide information to unqualified students about other schools that might meet their needs.

Cost concerns/Financial Aid

What do you do when a student asks if they will qualify for financial aid and if so how much they can receive?

when they only want the cost and class schedule with no tour

How do you handle someone that only wants to basics and won't go on a tour with you and say their time is limited and they are just comparing schools anyway.

A quick self-assessment

If you’ve just completed a training course, please consider responding to the three self-assessment questions below. Your responses will help you and other participants to get a head start on the transfer of training process.

 

  1. What have you learned? Write a brief summary of what you’ve learned.

  2. How can you apply it? List one or two ways in which you can apply what you’ve learned in your professional practice.

  3. What support do you need? Identify any support or additional information that you may need to apply what you’ve learned.

 

Grants and Schoolarships

Why it's not important to start with grants and schoolarships in the process to recruit students?

Following up with High school Seniors - Best Follow up Procedures

What are some suggestions in maintaining contact with high school leads?

This brought it full circle

In our new environment, and having worked in other schools, I was please to see that my college has already implemented so much of these practices already.

Sharing Benefits from the Student's Perspective

How do you encourage your students to share the benefit of attending school with you?

Giving Memorable Tours

What can you change about your tour to make it more memorable and/or more of an "experience" instead of just a power-walk?

Tools to Address Challenges

What tools do you currently use to address challenges? How are they working for you?

addressing New Prospects

We have address employment challenges by using various articles from trade magazines in dermatology to promote the growing demand for entry level providers in dermatology nursing.

tuff parents on a tour

When you know the parents are not happy with their child's choice in attending your school. How do you get them to see the benefit of it?

Financial Challenges

When you have a prospective student who does not have a any money to live, they are living with family or in a shelter, and has a child. How could or would you address this challenge?

The tools

This section made me realize how important it is for me to have the reps the sharpest tools in there toolbox. They need to be able to present the most recent and accurate data at all times, not just when the student asks for it, but to use it to build value as well.

Sharing Expertise with your Prospective Student

How will you "share expertise" with your students? What will you do to let them know that they are the expert when it comes to their life?

The Admissions Professional's Code of Conduct

What areas in the Admissions Professional's Code of Conduct did you identify as your challenges? How do you plan on addressing those challenges?

The Four Elements for Success

Which of the four elements (product knowledge, sales skills, people skills, and attitude) do you believe are most critical to the admissions professional? Why do you think these are critical to serving students in an ethical fashion?