Enrollment Solutions for Small and Niche Schools

Enrollment is an art of communication and a science that’s all about numbers. At Best Fit, we understand both.

We know that admissions, marketing, financial aid, and enrollment are interconnected. Finding the right students is as important as putting in place the programs and services that keep those students with you until graduation. Best Fit works with you to uncover your niche in the marketplace, explore your institution or program from a domestic and international perspective, and help you address multiple areas of your enrollment strategy.

Enrollment management strategies:

  • Enrollment operations audit

  • Institutional aid effectiveness

  • Operations support

  • Program-based institutional aid analysis

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  • Building robust inquiry and applicant pools; developing a profile of the ideal candidate; and creating an admissions recruitment and marketing plan that identifies when, where, and how to reach the right students.

  • Developing short- and long-term plans that reflect all of the complex factors that go into meeting your enrollment goals.

  • Allocating your institutional aid dollars to manage your enrollment outcomes by better meeting the needs of your students and leveraging your scholarship funding to most effectively meet your goals.

  • Best Fit will take a holistic look at the setup of your enrollment operations and work with you to be sure you are following best practices that your team is operating efficiently.

  • Strengthening all the institutional factors that set students up for success and working with your team to ensure your students thrive through to graduation.

  • Engaging prospective students and guiding them through the enrollment funnel with tailored messaging. Meeting your audiences where they are and proactively getting them the information they are looking for with segmented campaigns.

  • Maximizing the power of your Slate CRM from Technolutions so that your team can be nimble in the ever-changing landscape of the modern admissions office. Best Fit can integrate many of our solutions to work within your Slate system.

Our institutional consulting team, led by Robert Borden and Steve Castles, works closely with niche programs and institutions to assess their needs and goals. We are committed to developing connections between institutions and to bringing the knowledge of our experts to help provide a variety of creative solutions for organizations.

Robert Borden

President BFE Blueprint

Steve Castles

Executive Vice President of Slate Operations & BFE Blueprint Partnerships

Susan Dileno, Vice President of Enrollment Management, Mount Saint Mary’s University

“I hired BFE Blueprint to help us create an international recruitment plan.  As a newcomer to Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles,  I was surprised there was little international recruitment activity, let alone a plan.  Steve Castles, from BFE Blueprint, did an outstanding job creating a plan for us in a short amount of time.  His work entailed extensive research on potential international markets, prioritization of markets, review of our recruitment and admission practices, and implementing processes that enhanced the international student experience.  He provided a road map to the international market that we are still using two years later and it has proven to be invaluable given staff turnover.”