09/10/2026
A strong open house or a big application-deadline push feels like progress. But enrollment isn't one moment. It's a pipeline from awareness to application to yield, and most schools only market to one stage of it.
If a prospective student never saw you at the awareness stage, no deadline reminder brings them back in. The drop-off usually isn't at the finish line. It's earlier, where interest first goes quiet.
Map the full pipeline before you optimize any single stage of it.