SOLUTIONS SUCCESS STORIES EVENTS COMMUNITY ABOUT Request a Demo Success Stories Slate’s Application Builder Empowers Staff at Carle Illinois College of Medicine to Create a Revolutionary Secondary Application Carle Illinois College of Medicine (Carle Illinois) is a new model of rigorous, engineering-based medical education, specifically designed to develop physician innovators who will lead a lifelong journey of creative problem solving. Preparing to admit its first class for 2018, the admissions office at Carle Illinois designed a process for holistic review of the AMCAS (American Medical College Application Service) application as their primary application, integrating the AMCAS with Slate to display the information and rubrics in Slate’s Reader view. They were driven to build upon this and develop an innovative secondary application befitting their unique mission. They also wanted their application process to decrease bias and present fewer obstacles for disadvantaged applicants while ensuring that applicants could learn about the unique culture of Carle Illinois. Read More Slate Form Builder Enables Administrators to Better Engage with Prospective Students as well as Support those who are Currently Enrolled Before adopting Slate, staff at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology managed events and non-credit course enrollment with inefficient manual processes. Admissions staff registered attendees for events with phone and email exchanges, manually creating registration lists that didn’t accurately reflect the dynamic nature of registrations. Furthermore, predicting final attendance for non-credit courses was a struggle because Banner only worked for credit-bearing enrollment. Read More Slate Empowers Suffolk University Graduate Admissions to Do More with Only One System Prior to using Slate, the admissions office at the Suffolk University Graduate School managed their daily processes with a variety of incompatible systems: one platform hosted their online application, a second was used for reporting, a third for document retention, a fourth served as an applicant status portal, and a fifth was employed for email communications. Other aspects, like reaching out to applicants, managing checklists, and producing paper letters to be scanned, were still done manually. Read More Slate Enables Administrators at Spelman College to Better Manage a Rising Influx of Applications In 2017, increased interest in historically black colleges and universities more than doubled the number of applications received by Spelman College. If administrators wanted to efficiently process them all, they needed a better way to review and manage applications. At that time, counselors took paper files home to read, which often resulted in lost records and missing requirements. These manual processes were inefficient and prevented administrators from promptly releasing decisions. It was challenging to track the status of applications and know which were incomplete, complete, or in the process of being read. Read More Marquette University Improves Trip and Event Planning with Slate’s Geospatial Data Tools Like many universities, Marquette admissions staff worried that because they didn’t have hard supporting data, they weren’t properly managing their travel and events. And, when attendance at costly events was lower than expected, they had trouble determining whether its location was the primary deterring issue. Read More Gift Officers at Illinois Wesleyan are Leveraging Slate’s Powerful Data to Work More Effectively Fragmented systems and a legacy tool that was not web-based were challenges for the Advancement team at Illinois Wesleyan. Because so much of advancement work is done on the road, it was essential that data be available to all as they traveled to meet with alumni around the country. They knew that data could propel their operations forward, so identified Slate as a tool to gather, house, organize, and analyze valuable information. Read More Gaining Efficiencies with Slate and Slate.org In 2017, when Georgetown University, the oldest Jesuit university in the US, wanted to move their largely paper-based recruitment and review process to one that was more efficient and streamlined, they had a few guiding objectives. A major pain point was the paper review and manual process of receiving materials for over 20k applications. Georgetown administrators also wanted to improve the way they communicated with school counselors to provide the status of materials being gathered, as well as, ultimately, sharing of decisions. The first step in their journey with Slate as their chosen CRM was to build out the application where the data would be gathered. Because Georgetown does not accept the Common App, it was essential that the CRM they selected could support the creation of their own unique application. In addition to Slate’s robust application building functionality, administrators at Georgetown also leveraged Slate’s recommendation forms, student status pages, and Slate Reader to create an electronic and automated new process. Read More FOCUS ON Slate Preferred Partner Success Stories Underscore’s Skilled Divisions Help St. John Fisher College to Achieve Slate Implementation Goals The admissions staff at St. John Fisher College ran into a common problem when deciding to implement Slate in early 2020: how would their small staff manage the implementation of a brand new CRM while trying to conduct business as usual? Their goal? Focus on bringing student search in-house for Fall 2021, using all of Slate’s communication tools, providing a portal for students who have applied, and accessing analytics that would inform recruitment strategy. With the help of Underscore, Fisher’s admissions team was able to better manage all of these competing tasks and approach each project with tested best practices and proven experience. Underscore’s Implementation Division provided extensive and ongoing support (modeled after the Technolutions Roadmap) to identify key milestones and ensure students would be recruited and have the ability to apply in the fall. Transferring the necessary enrollment data to Slate but also effectively utilizing that data during an ongoing implementation cycle is tricky, but Underscore’s Enrollment Strategy Division was able to collaborate with the implementation and build reports that ensured no students were left behind in the active recruitment cycle. Read More Ready when you are! 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