Work Smarter, Not Harder, This Fall

Life on the road can be exhausting. Help lighten the load for your counselors and road warriors by taking advantage of these tools:

This easy-to-implement tool integrates with person record dashboards to provide quick, digestible updates that counselors can reference while on the go:

• Activity Summaries
  “How many emails has a student opened? When was the last time they logged in to the portal? Is their application complete?” All of these questions and more can be answered with the AI Dashboard.
• Engagement Scores
  Let AI analyze each student’s level of engagement and provide an overall score and summary. Counselors can review these scores in seconds and go into meetings feeling even better prepared.
• Recommended Follow-Ups
  Not only can AI tell you how engaged students are, but it can also provide your team with recommendations on how best to follow up, whether that’s scheduling meetings with key players (coaches or faculty) or sticking with one outreach method over another.

Whatever you or your staff want to know about prospective students, the AI Dashboard can be built in a way to get you answers.

With more and more schools implementing cell phone bans, the days of scanning a QR code and filling out an inquiry form online are quickly disappearing. In fact, many colleges and universities are going back to handwritten cards. Although a great workaround for the phone bans, if you’ve ever had the pleasure (displeasure? 🤔) of trying to decipher a teenager’s handwriting, the thought may make you shudder.

That’s where Slate’s new AI Form Scanner comes in.

Simply open up your Slate Mobile app and snap a picture of the completed card to have Slate AI automatically convert it into a form submission!

These two tools are serious game-changers, helping students and your team make the most of their time and (packed) schedules.

• Embed Bolt Discovery on your website and get your counselors ready to tell the world how easily students, families, counselors, and alumni can find what they’re looking for. No more endless scrolling or page searches… simply type in what you’re looking for and Bolt Discovery will hand deliver it (OK, not literally, but you understand).
• Use a Bolt Chatbot Agent on your landing pages and forms to provide students with a low-pressure, safe environment to ask the questions they might otherwise feel too embarrassed to ask. Once set up, be sure to have counselors promote it as a resource following high school visits or college fairs.

Get ready for visitors by including AI in your preparation for open houses, tours, and events!

Use Slate AI to help create new components wherever you see a WYSIWYG editor, including entire custom portals! With a little bit of time and focus, you could create an entirely new campus tour sign-up page or open house portal. Push the limits and see what types of engaging and colorful ideas AI can create for you.

Leave the reminders and follow-ups to AI Agents that can autonomously reach out to students to promote events. Agents can be configured to reach out via any method you choose and with a tone that aligns with your audience. Want them to reach out via email first, and then text later? Can do!

Every campus has unique processes, and now your AI can, too!

Instead of relying exclusively on pre-built behaviors, admissions teams can create Custom Skills that teach Bolt exactly how to respond to institution-specific questions and workflows.

Whether it’s connecting students with financial aid when they ask about scholarships, explaining honors admissions, helping them register for a specific campus event, or directing applicants to the correct counselor based on academic program, Custom Skills will bring your personalization to the next level.