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“Move-in melt” is on the rise: Why it’s happening and 3 strategies to fight it

EAB

Factors Contributing to Move-In Melt Based on our last year’s data, we saw move-in melt primarily happening in two student groups: international students and students without financial aid packages where the enrollment team believes they may be eligible for need-based aid.

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The top 5 ways prospective graduate and adult learners are finding your programs

EAB

Forty-three percent of prospective graduate students spent at least one year researching programs. International students and students interested in legal education programs (JD, LLM) spend the most time researching programs, perhaps because of the additional application requirements these students face.

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How to Recruit Adult Career Switchers

EAB

And so having the opportunity to have your website, be your key recruiter to get that information to students is something that we're talking a lot with our partners so that students really understand that value proposition that your institution will present to them. DK: Understood. The career changers are exactly right.

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Use the CSS Profile for Aid From Top Colleges

College Planners of America

The College Board’s College Scholarship Service (CSS) isn’t free, but submitting a CSS Profile application form is an inexpensive way to apply for aid from the institutions that participate in the service. Students should submit a CSS Profile if applying to one or more of the colleges that use it to allocate their institutional funds.

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How to Manage a PR Crisis

EAB

It could be a controversial political appointment, to the board of trustees of someone that students don't serve in the same, or identify the same political party as that individual or some controversy around that person's placement. Are our international students somehow affected one way or another?