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How to impact retention through a positive admissions experience

Oct 29, 2024 | EdTech

The admissions process is the first impression that an institution leaves on its applicants and future students, and it is a key reason why students stay enrolled. The way you manage the process impacts the long-term outcomes for the student and your institution.

For example, University of Pavia achieved a 1000% increase in applications in five years with DreamApply, while maintaining healthy enrollment.

How can DreamApply help you grow and retain students?

DreamApply helps track the applicants’ progress and provide personalized support, ensuring that no student is left behind in the process.. In the case of University of Pavia, this holistic support contributed to higher conversion rates and better student retention.

Educational institutions can improve collaboration between departments by setting different access levels  within the admissions management system.

DreamApply’s platform allows institutions to assign different levels of access to various offices and departments, making sure that each team only interacts with the data relevant to their role. For example, admissions officers can manage applications, while student support services can access information critical to ongoing student guidance.

Academic advisors can use the information provided at times of the application related to their academic goals, and personalize the advising material ahead of time.

This flexibility ensures that teams, such as financial offices, academic departments, and career services, can collaborate effectively without compromising data security or overwhelming users with unnecessary details.

By the time that the student finishes the admissions process, they would have had access to much more than just the tuition fee; this level of care and clarity increases the chance of enrollment, and ensures the trust in the institution’s capabilities.

Why should students have more trust in your institution?

A student-institution relationship is a relationship. The communication, dedication, loyalty, and respect between the two depends on trust, just like in any other relationship. Trust is built through transparency and consistent support, and DreamApply facilitates this with features like personalized communication workflows.

Personalized communication workflows allow institutions to tailor messages based on each applicant’s unique journey, ensuring students feel valued at every stage. For example, students can receive personalized notifications about scholarships, housing options, or even upcoming deadlines, providing clarity beyond just tuition fees.

One of DreamApply’s features is the comprehensive applicant interface where applicants can easily track their application status, upload required documents, and directly communicate with admissions or financial offices. With all information in one place, students gain confidence in the institution’s ability to manage their needs efficiently.

By maintaining this, DreamApply allows institutions to strengthen the student-institution relationship, fostering long-term loyalty and commitment.

When students have questions beyond the information provided, they go directly to you!

Two-way communication via DreamApply takes the trust to the next level, resembling an open-virtual-door policy for applicants. This is not only convenient for administrators and students, but it ensures a level of accessibility and more instant support than ever before.

Here is what your institution has been missing: a two-way messaging feature for improved communication flow in the admissions process.

About DreamApply

Founded in 2011 in Estonia, DreamApply is an innovation-driven EdTech organization that improves access to education around the globe. DreamApply’s application management software helps more than 300 educational institutions across 40 countries improve admissions, marketing, financial and other internal processes.

DreamApply’s easy-to-use and customizable software increases student enrollment by 30% and reduces application processing time by 40%. With features designed with and for educational institutions, and integrations with commonly used systems, DreamApply empowers teams to get more done with less effort.

Book a demo today to learn more about how DreamApply’s features help build trust with applicants, ensuring long-term trust and retention of students at your institution.

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DreamApply does not manage admissions or scholarships.  Please get in touch with the respective universities directly if you are a student/applicant.  DreamApply is a software company that provides universities with a student admission management system.  We wish you good luck with your applications!

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