When college inquiry volume falls, enrollment teams need to engage students earlier, find stronger intent signals, and focus outreach where it can make a difference.
Hartwick College is seeing improvements in student engagement and enrollment results thanks to a new digital strategy that connects prospective students long before they arrive on campus.
See how changing student engagement patterns can reveal shifts in interests, questions, and enrollment intent, helping teams respond with relevant next steps.
For college enrollment teams looking to increase applications, one of the biggest challenges isn't simply reaching more students. It's knowing which students are genuinely interested, what they're interested in, and where to focus recruitment efforts to move more of them toward applying.
A disconnected student engagement platform is more than a technology inconvenience. When student conversations, event activity, direct messages, and application signals sit in separate places, enrollment teams lose the context needed to understand intent and respond quickly.
Learn how enrollment funnel optimization helps higher education teams identify student intent, tailor outreach, and guide more inquiries toward applications.
College-bound students live on their phones. Before they ever visit campus, they are already joining group chats, scrolling social feeds, and looking for real people who can help them picture their future.
Silent summer melt is not a surprise anymore. Every year, deposits look solid in late spring, then late June and early July roll in and students quietly disappear.
The student journey is far more complex than the traditional enrollment funnel suggests. Many of the moments that shape enrollment decisions happen long before an application is started and often outside the visibility of institutional data.
We asked 12,000 high school students what they think of colleges using AI in the admissions process, and they didn’t hold back. In just 24 hours, 12,000 students shared their perspectives on colleges using AI in the admissions process.
Learn how an authentic college community platform boosts student engagement, applications, and yield while empowering enrollment teams with daily student behavior insights that shape strategy.
For admissions teams, May 1 isn’t the finish line. It’s the moment risk begins. In this blog article find out what competitors are doing reduce summer melt by >50%
In our recent webinar, ZeeMee CEO Vanessa Didyk and Account Executive Josh Owens walked through how student engagement, behavioral data, and AI are coming together to transform the way enrollment teams work every day.
AI is rapidly reshaping college enrollment. From predictive modeling to automated outreach, institutions are being told that adopting AI is essential to staying competitive. But not every moment in a student’s journey should be automated.
As AI reshapes the enrollment landscape, the question isn’t whether it will transform the field; it’s where it should replace human effort and where human connection must remain at the center.
Most enrollment strategy focuses on student email addresses and click data. Winning institutions see the human behind the application, and act accordingly.
The team at the University of Washington set out to build more than just a student community – they wanted to create a bigger sense of belonging AND get more students to campus.
In this EduData episode, ZeeMee leaders share how behavioral signals and machine learning predict student commitment with 90% precision, helping colleges recruit smarter and reduce melt. They also reveal the tech behind their multi-stage models and what it means for the future of enrollment strategy.
ZeeMee builds pre-arrival student community, outperforms traditional social platforms, and uses up to 98% accurate predictive analytics and AI to reduce melt, improve retention, and target at-risk students.
In this episode of Higher Ed Pulse, host Mallory Willsea sits down with Harrison “Soup” Campbell, Head of Community Experience at ZeeMee, to discuss groundbreaking new survey data from over 8,700 high school seniors on how they perceive AI in the college search process.
This conversation on The Innovators and Investors Podcast with host Kristian Marquez features Adam Metcalf, co-founder of ZeeMee, who discusses the journey of his startup aimed at connecting Gen Z students before they arrive on college campuses.
To better understand the obstacles and experiences students face, we’re conducting surveys every month – exploring their opinions, major pain points, and feelings about key components of the admissions process.
