No one was giving out any "paper" at the Frisco college night. Everything was on digital formats.
Videos and power points running in flatscreens.
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No one was giving out any "paper" at the Frisco college night. Everything was on digital formats.
Videos and power points running in flatscreens.
It seems to have changed. Mayb a rep comes to the once a year college night but there are many, many schools that make multiple appearances a year. Coppell has some pretty impressive engineering programs at the high school level. Solar car, underwater robotics, rocketry (the bigs ones) just to name a few. If kids are walking past then the marketing is incorrect. There needs to be something visual that shouts "Enginnering and science". The recruiters need to be up and about and engaging, not sitting behind a table waiting to be approached.Originally Posted by solo1001
As a side note, I heard there were a couple of the football coaches on campus the other day.
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One of our neighbors recently stopped to talk to my wife and I while we were working in the yard. He had noticed our Tech flag and mentioned that his son was about to graduate and that he had been impressed with Tech when recruiters visited his school recently. My wife and I both told him how much we loved Tech and how highly we think of Tech after getting degrees from other schools. The only thing our neighbor said was keeping Tech from being a slam dunk was that his son wanted to play football and he didn't think he was good enough to make the team at Tech.
I worked in Admissions/Recruiting for 2 years and was a student recruiter for 3. The recruiting visits to high schools are done by around 10 recruiters (not students). The amount of of area that staff covers in a year is incredible. Each recruiter has a region, and metro areas are especially hard to canvas with a single recruiter. Personally, I only remember one college recruiter coming to my high school, Jimmy Washington.
It's really a simple issue of manpower. Also, when I left about 9 months ago, there was room in the Admission/Recruiting section for maybe 2 more recruiters, so the limit of manpower for that building is almost reached.
Year-round, especially during the Fall, thousands of info packets, postcards, and letters of admission status are mailed to prospective students. There are towers of boxes of various info packets stacked in rooms. Student workers primarily handle mail-outs. I don't know the exact mechanics of it all, but I'm pretty sure the student initiates contact to the school by sending their test scores, visiting or calling, or being a legacy. I was a legacy and I remember getting mail my freshman year, but I also took the ACT that year.
The staff that works in Hale Hall does a great job for the resources they have. Give them more and they'll be able to do more like powerpoints, etc.
At this point (and since DD and the Indy bowl), Tech's biggest recruiting tool is football and tv.
Just my perspective.
I hope my great nephews are in line to attend the family school. If there is any potential for that not to happen, then their grandmother will set them straight I'm sure.:icon_wink:
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I've complained about this before. My kids grew up in McKinney, and LA Tech was one of the few colleges that didn't even bother to show up at my son's "College Day" at McKinney North High School back in 2008.
I've said a thousand times that LA Tech is the biggest FINANCIAL BARGAIN north Texas HS students will see within a 4 hour car drive of the DFW metroplex. It's absolutely insane that we don't recruit the DFW area more heavily than we do. Texas students are typically good students (because the high schools are comparatively good), Ruston is an easy 4-hour car drive from their home, and the Texas students can't beat the price anywhere. And some love the idea of going "out of state".
We can do better. Much better.
HD
Snail mail. That's the problem. This isn't 1997 anymore. Kids just throw away paper. This is the internet age, and our recruiting department is way behind in internet recruiting. Our future students web page is very basic. Our recruiting facebook page is very basic. Our recruiting department doesn't utilize YouTube. Our university facebook page does not interact with its fans except for very rare occassions. The pics are nice, but it's pretty much just an RSS feed publisher that doesn't engage anyone. We are a tech school, and our admin doesn't know how to take advantage of free, limitless, popular technology.
Sounds like LA Tech needs a "Social Media" department in Admissions/Recruiting.
HD
What we need in someone with a marketing/sale background that knows how to sell an intangible. Not an academic.
The people technically running the show in Admissions don't get social media. Use of Twitter, Facebook, etc. is delegated to lower level recruiters.
Seems I may need to clarify something. I fully support the Office of Admissions. They are a hard working group of people who make do with what they have. This may come as a surprise to no one, but some Admissions staff do read this board.
Some of your old co-workers but a bug in your ear?
I agree and I'm almost of the opinion that the under funding of the admissions department is on purpose to control student growth; you don't want what happened in the 60-70's an explosion and shoddy slap dash infrastructure to try and keep up.
What do you mean? Kidd, Neilson, Caruthers...they are fantastic building just ask Champ967
I agree and I'm almost of the opinion that the under funding of the admissions department is on purpose to control student growth; you don't want what happened in the 60-70's an explosion and shoddy slap dash infrastructure to try and keep up.
Yea, they'd make great 5 star hotels if we had any foresight.
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