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Registrar

Is it okay if an admissions counselor also works for the Registrar?

The key word in knowledge is "know"

Understanding of your institution includes knowing all the appropriate information to help the prospect as well as helping the school stay in compliance. If you do not fully understand your school and how it works, how can the prospect? Get a general knowledge of every department in your school to be able to give the most effective, service as possible and know how to maintain compliance.

Organization

Organization is very key to maintaining productivity. From the generation of leads, to your resource notebook oranization reflects your productivity in every way. It also reflects the way the institution runs overall in some prospects eyes.

Purpose of Admissions

The purpose of Admissions is to completely represent the institution accurately and ethically at all times. They must provide current information about the school, it's programs, costs, financial aid requirements, offerings and standards etc, both academically and ethically to help the student make an informed decision to attend. Some people may view it as sales, but for others, this may be a means to change their lives and so we should be should always make sure that we are always in compliance for the school,ourselves, and most important the prospective student.

Admissions Training Program

New to Admissions: Why is it required by state to complete this Admissions Training program? And how long has it been required to be in effect?

Paper Trail: keeping a log

I think that when dealing with prospective students, admissions counselor, should always have a log of where the that students file and paper work is. This way you always know where the students file is. You know what documents where handed in and what is where in case it goes missing. It has always helped me when I could not find a file or a document for a student. LEt me know if anyone else has any other suggestions.

Acceptable English skills

Can a student be denied admission due to a lack of an acceptable level of English skills?

National versus Regional Accreditation

What is the difference between national and regional accreditation and is there a preference of one over the other?

transfert credit

What international transfert?

International studenta

We need to know more about international students

rules

CIE requires the recuiter to know all rule about the institution.

referral

Referal one of the great advertising form specially in small community.

Admissions Consulor also is an Instructor

Is it ok for an admisions Advisor to also have a position as instructor

Entrance Assessments

I believe that it is a best practice to have an entrance assessment, to ensure students are able to be successful in that particular program before an investment of time and money is made. What do you think a reasonable amount of attempts should be or should one be required at all?

Resource Notebook

I find the resource notebook to be a great tool! Regarding the License renewal, I have made a "Renewal Notebook" to keep old copies, updated copies and changes for next year readily available. I built it based off of the format I used for the resource notebook. I have been handling Admissions for the last year and wish I had this earlier!

Green Campus

I like having a resource notebook as a tool to access all important information as well as a way to keep updated on new policies and regulations. Since our campus is going green and everything seems to be available on my computer, would it be just as effective to create a notebook on my computer with all the information located in one spot? This way I can reference and update at any point without using paper?

rolling admissions

Rolling means admittance is first come, first serve. For those applications, you need to get them in as early as possible.

Assessments

Institutions create assessments that allow teachers and administrators to gauge whether a student will succeed in a particular class or institution. Along with measuring student abilities for admission into college or a university, these assessments can also be used for decisions on scholarship and funding.

Should the school provide remedial classes before prospects take any t

I work for a bilingual school and we have an English and Spanish assessment for admission that’s why I want to know more about it.

The Admissions Process and Documents

By having a clear outlined process and guideline in place has helped me to actually discover and help student applicants while going through the experience of applying for college. Thus, allowing the student to understand and feel at ease with the process of college.