Boost Admissions Yield with the Power of Community
Revamp your higher ed admissions strategy with community-based admissions software to help prospective students & their families feel a sense of belonging before they even set foot on campus.
Reduce summer melt
Make sure students feel like they belong and know what steps to take before school starts, to help them feel connected & prepared so they don’t get cold feet.
Track sentiment
Reduce the time spent on uninterested admits by easily tracking student sentiment and quickly identifying the students who might need an extra nudge.
Ease parental anxieties
Make sure families feel in-the-loop by giving them access to all of the info, resources, and checklists they need to form a family-wide connection to campus.
Discover Raftr’s admitted student solutions
Admissions
Colleges lose 10-40% of accepted students to summer melt
The connection between retention and a sense of belonging is well-established. Facilitate early connections and foster excitement for the upcoming school year by providing an admissions software solution where prospective students can connect with each other and their future campus before they even step foot on the quad.
Target communication
Personalize and target communication to ensure that prospective students receive relevant, timely information & resources that meets their needs and interests so they don’t feel overwhelmed and retain.
Offer support
Enable prospective students to seek advice, ask questions, and receive support from their peers as well as admissions staff to provide quick assistance, and support during the admissions process.
Gather feedback
Create a supportive and welcoming environment for admitted students by tracking engagement, enhancing communication, identifying trends, building community, and improving decision-making.
Parent & Family
48% of students surveyed ranked “parental influence” as 1 of their top 5 sources of information on the admissions process
From providing financial support to offering general guidance, parents & family play a significant role in the admissions process. And because a parent or guardian’s opinion and preferences can influence the college choices of incoming students, it’s important to win them over as soon as possible.
Keep families in the loop
Free up valuable admin & staff time previously spent on responding to inquiries, and leverage your custom, private parent & family community to share useful notifications, resources, reminders (and more!) to keep everybody in the loop.
Eliminate friction
Avoid any unforeseen hurdles, conflicts, or misunderstandings by providing checklists, resources & notifications to help parents gain the insights they need to assist their students through the admissions process.
Track satisfaction
Assess the effectiveness of your communication strategies by tracking metrics such as response rates, feedback, and overall satisfaction scores so you can make the necessary improvement to ensure a positive experience for parents & families.
Support students from the time they apply, to long after they graduate with Raftr’s complete Campus App
Reach and engage students, alumni, faculty, and parents with Raftr’s complete Campus App.
Automatically pull and consolidate content & events from disparate websites & calendars, oversee secure & effective communication channels like targeted announcements or peer-to-peer messaging, and generate actionable community & engagement insights.
- White label branding
- Custom communities
- Easy to analyze data
- Time saving integrations
We’ve come a long way with Raftr in a very short time! Raftr’s support throughout the process allowed us to set up our communities effectively with hands-on guided implementation help and now we’re able to see how users interact with our communities.
I am overall quite satisfied with the early data and we’ll use this information to make decisions for next year.
Heidi Buffington, Director of Admissions
Saint Louis University – Madrid