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Admissions Practices | November 3, 2026
Marketing Your School: How to Promote Open Days and Fill Every Seat
Discover effective strategies to promote your school's open days and engage families. Learn how to turn visits into applications and ensure no family is overlooked.
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Admissions Practices | October 26, 2026
How to Move from Collecting Applications to Managing Relationships
Discover how your school's admissions process can transform into a relationship-building opportunity, enhancing family engagement and boosting enrollment success
Admissions Practices | October 6, 2026
School Admissions CRM Guide: Build a Stronger Spring Pipeline
Build your spring enrollment pipeline with a school admissions CRM. Capture early interest, nurture families, and track progress toward enrollment
Admissions Practices | September 29, 2026
8 Years of Admissions Data: Do Schools Really Grow after Moving to OpenApply?
Eight years of OpenApply admissions data from 900 schools the median school grew applications 4. 4x, and schools using the full CRM grew 5
Product Updates | July 16, 2026
My Child's School Uses OpenApply. I Just Didn't Know That Would Become My Job
I spent seven years working inside schools before I joined Faria as a solutions consultant for OpenApply. I thought that meant I understood admissions from every angle worth understanding
Product Updates | July 16, 2026
Fine. We'll Say It. We Think We're the Best Admissions Platform Out There
Most companies dance around this. They say things like "a leading provider of admissions solutions" or "one of the top choices for schools worldwide," which is corporate for please don't make us commit to anything
Admissions Practices | June 30, 2026
A Smoother Back to School: How to Reduce Drop-Off in Your Admissions Funnel
Every admissions team wants more enquiries. Far fewer stop to ask what happens to the enquiries they already have. Yet that is where intakes are won or lost, not at the top of the funnel, but in the middle, where families quietly slip away between first contact and enrolment
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Admissions Practices | June 30, 2026
Back to School Starts at Admissions: Adapting to the Rise of Local Families
Every admissions team is preparing for a new intake. Fewer are preparing for the fact that the families arriving are not the families the international schools sector was built to serve. The shift is already well underway, and it changes what a strong admissions process needs to do
Professional Development | March 19, 2026
The Rise of School Groups: What’s Driving Expansion and What It Really Takes to Scale
If you lead or work within an international or independent school today, the landscape may feel very different from even a decade ago
Product Updates | February 23, 2026
Advancement Is the Continuation of Belonging
The most successful schools know that advancement starts the moment a student feels they belong, not just after graduation
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