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Practical guides for school admissions
Use these guides to review how your school handles enquiries, open days, visits and applications. They are useful whichever software you use.
How to follow up with prospective families
Agree who replies to each new enquiry and how quickly. Record what the family asked, what the school promised and when the next contact will happen. After a visit, follow up on the family's own questions rather than sending everyone the same message.
- Make ownership explicit at every stage.
- Keep the history with the family record, even when staff change.
- Review unanswered enquiries and overdue actions every week.
Which admissions metrics matter
Start with operational measures: new enquiries by source, time to first response, visits booked and completed, applications and enrolments. Split them by year group, stage or campus when that helps a decision.
Guides
What is a school admissions CRM?
What a school admissions CRM does, how it differs from a spreadsheet, a generic CRM and your SIS, and what to check before choosing one.
School open day follow-up: turning visits into applications
How to prepare a school open day, what to record about each family and how to follow up in the days after so more visits turn into applications.
School admissions software compared: features, fit and pricing
Finalsite Enrollment, OpenApply, Veracross, Blackbaud, Ravenna, iSAMS, HubSpot, Salesforce and EduRolia compared for independent and international school admissions.
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