How to make Slate the nerve center of your entire enrollment strategy
For students, the enrollment journey often feels like a maze. One login for the application, another to visit campus, a third to check financial aid. The experience is disjointed, confusing, and even frustrating at times.
And behind the scenes, your team is juggling just as much—multiple platforms, scattered data, and siloed systems that make it nearly impossible to offer a seamless, personalized experience.
The reality is disjointed systems don’t just frustrate students—they drive them away. Every gap in the enrollment process is a student slipping through. And each one comes at a cost.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Enter Slate. A tool most institutions are familiar with or have already adopted, but haven’t fully leveraged.
Slate can (and should) be the nerve center of your entire enrollment strategy. It can be the connective tissue that brings every touchpoint—every portal, message, internal workflow—into one unified system.
It’s time to rethink your approach and use Slate to support the entire student lifecycle—from sophomore year to census—to create a better experience for students and a more efficient collaborative process for your team.
Imagine a central hub where every piece of data, every interaction, and every decision point in a student’s journey is meticulously managed and optimized. You can oversee the entire student journey from one place and use Slate’s powerful tools to improve the student experience at every stage.
Here’s how it all fits together:
- Engage students (and parents) early with a custom portal where they can access personalized information based on their interests and timeline, explore your school, and feel connected. Add in points-based interactions and exclusive unlockable content to make the experience feel fun, rewarding, and worth coming back to again and again.
- Guide students through the application process by tracking their progress, prompting them with status-based call-to-actions, and encouraging FAFSA completions—all in the same portal.
- Drive deposits and reduce melt as the portal evolves from admissions through enrollment—helping students review financial aid offers, submit their deposit, connect with faculty, and then stay on track post-deposit with a dynamic enrollment checklist.
- Trigger personalized communications across every channel—emails, texts, print, and ads—based on real-time student data, behavior, and interest.
- Empower your team to act with clarity and speed using a Counselor Command Center™, a custom internal portal that identifies tasks, tracks follow-ups, and eliminates data chasing across systems.
- Measure, analyze, and optimize continuously with real-time reports that expose leaks in your funnel and highlight opportunities to refine your strategy.
We know it works—because we’ve done it. If your enrollment strategy isn’t improving the student experience and making your team better, it’s holding you back. That’s why we built an evolving system that grows with your students—all in Slate.
If you’re ready to revolutionize your enrollment strategy from sophomore to census, let’s talk—we’d love to help.