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Slate for Admissions

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What is Slate for Admissions?

Slate is a platform for admissions and enrollment management, student success, and alumni/advancement, from Technolutions in New Haven. Designed and developed exclusively for higher education, Slate by Technolutions supports the student and donor lifecycle, and provides a unified interface to…

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GAME CHANGER

10 out of 10
May 31, 2018
Incentivized
We use Slate as our primary resource for assisting students in the application process for our university. We also use it for …
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What is Slate for Admissions?

Slate is a platform for admissions and enrollment management, student success, and alumni/advancement, from Technolutions in New Haven. Designed and developed exclusively for higher education, Slate by Technolutions supports the student and donor lifecycle, and provides a unified interface to CRM,…

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Product Details

What is Slate for Admissions?

Slate is designed exclusively for higher education and boasts users among over 1,700 colleges and universities across the world. Using Slate helps to to better manage relationships with prospects, applicants, and admitted students through the use of automations, personalized outreach, and bespoke applications that fit the unique needs of the institution. Slate is designed to be configured by those closest to the business process and empowers decision makers with the tools they need in order to meet their business objectives.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Slate is a platform for admissions and enrollment management, student success, and alumni/advancement, from Technolutions in New Haven. Designed and developed exclusively for higher education, Slate by Technolutions supports the student and donor lifecycle, and provides a unified interface to CRM, outreach and communications, travel management, online applications, online reading, student success and retention, and alumni and donor engagement.

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The most common users of Slate for Admissions are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Slate is our prospective student information system. We use it to collect and manage prospective student data, campus visits and events, applications for admission and scholarships, and communications to students and parents. We started with our undergraduate programs and have recently expanded to include our graduate programs, as well. It also helps us to track our enrollment goals in real-time with powerful query and reporting tools.
  • Queries and reports.
  • Drip marketing.
  • Student data management.
  • Event management.
  • Application review.
  • Customer service.
  • Training and user support.
  • Including print mailings in drip marketing.
  • YOY reporting.
I would recommend Slate, by Technolutions for any higher education institution, big or small. Though there is a higher cost associated with Slate than most other options, it's well worth the price. The level of detail that you're able to gather, maintain, and query on within your student data is far beyond anything I've experienced with other systems. These insights help you pinpoint areas for action and improvement so that you can pivot when necessary, helping you reach your enrollment goals quicker and more efficiently.
January 24, 2022

The CRM of all CRMs

Iliana Hernandez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Slate is being used by our university for the entire admissions process and for communication to prospective and applied/admitted students. It also being used as a contact database for organization contacts from churches to schools. It is being used for event management from overnight events to appointments and walk-ins. It is used for communication logging from sms messaging to phone conversations.
  • Their innovation and frequent release of new features.
  • Their ease of integration that makes use by any school absolutely customized.
  • Their invitation to be part of a large conversation on slate. [Their Twitter feed on the dashboard regarding all things slate]
  • Probably just the aesthetics of layout.
  • The layout and user friendliness of the mobile app.
  • As much as I love their organic marketing strategy, I would love marketing material to share with other schools while I'm on the road. [Youtube demo, clean social media channels, etc]
Any type of admissions/university scenario is going to be where Slate is well suited. Because of its customization opportunities, we haven't found too many scenarios where it isn't appropriate. Maybe working from the app on a cell phone? i.e. making calls from a query list because of the clunky mobile format?
December 16, 2021

Clean Slate

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My university uses Slate[, by Technolutions] to manage applications for prospective students.
  • Organizing diverse sets of information
  • Fairly easy to navigate
  • Condenses info into downloadable pdf
  • Doesn't automatically advance to the next application in the queue once one application is processed
  • Doesn't allow an easy view of other queues to see what is coming down the pike
  • Doesn't allow users to copy email of applicants
Once an applicant's file is reviewed and moved on to be accepted or rejected, there does not seem to be an easily accessible archive of the application document. It would be nice to easily dip into an archive/record of all accepted students' applications. Slate[, by Technolutions] does work well for giving multiple reviewers (an admissions committee) access to the documents.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this as our primary enrollment CRM, which manages everything from our person/contact information to advanced communication and even data management and segmentation! This is a highly advanced and recommended software tool!
  • Managing contacts.
  • Smart communications (drip email campaigns).
  • Real-time data management.
  • End-to-end control of product (or instance of).
  • Allows for easy to implement segmentation via smart rules and queries (data sets).
  • Better communication about added/new features!
  • More hands-on assistance.
Essentially, if you have a body of students, especially incoming students, this tool makes everything easier. It helps with managing those students through your communication, storing their information, acting on said information, etc.
Ashley Watson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company recently switched to [Technolutions] Slate in the last 3 years, and it has solved so many of our admissions problems. Having access to a portal that applicants can come back to and see clearly laid out what they are missing from their application file has allowed our admissions team to have better conversion rate of leads to applicants and applicants to admitted students. It's easy to use interface really made the learning curve a lot easier to manage.
  • Customer Support
  • Guided tutorials found in knowledgebase
  • Data Management
  • Functionality
  • Additional customization would ne nice
  • Constant enhancements
  • Wish there was more put into emailing and campaigns
Overall, [Technolutions] Slate has been an incredible CRM for our institution. It was easy to learn, and it does its job well. The ability for students to log back into a portal and see their application digitally has saved our staff a lot of time and effort. Previously, we had a web based application that didn't allow for applicants to be actively engaged in their application files and [Technolutions] Slate solved a real problem for us. It's affordable, intuitive and effective.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used by our Admissions Dept. There is some use by other offices: Pharmacy/PA, Fine Arts, Financial Aid.

It is used for virtually all admissions/recruiting processing: communications, applicant ranking, event management, outreach/marketing.
  • Being able to create a standard communications flow to/from applicants.
  • Very intuitive interface.
  • Query functions are fairly robust, but easy for end-users to use.
  • Some of their table structures are overly complex; don't necessarily conform to usual standards in relational databases. This is being addressed, but some oddities still exist.
I am not an end-user but use Slate as an "outsider" since I'm in IT. I use it to verify data coming to and from our SIS PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. That being said, I think it is robust and easy for most to use. It is clearly seen as the "Best in Breed" for CRM/Recruiting/Admissions systems. I am a firm believer in going with such systems. There are strength and power in numbers.

Technolutions is rather nimble and responsive with updates and addressing needs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We needed a better CRM solution to attract new student population. We have worked with with different solutions/vendors on the past, but communication was just no effective and previous solutions were just too complicated and inefficient from administrative prospective. We needed something simple to have better impact and make processes on administration side easier and more effective. Provide staff with something that will allow them to better utilize their time.
  • Further impact
  • Easier communication
  • Easy to get going
  • It is really hard to mess something up
  • Admin interface looks like it is from 90s, internet evolved ever since
  • Integration with major student information systems (they are fairly new so I guess it's ok)
  • Their man developer is person who started company and he coded about 30 new features during their conference over night and published to production. It is great he is guru and he can do this, but there is no testing and what happens if something happens to him, no other developer have idea what was done in such a short period of time so it present a huge risk
If you need a better way to communicate with students and have further impact this is great solution because it handles email communication exceptionally well.
May 31, 2018

GAME CHANGER

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Slate as our primary resource for assisting students in the application process for our university. We also use it for communication purposes, travel planning, monitoring communication, etc. It is primarily used by our department, but we are slowly helping other departments move towards using Slate. It addresses the issues of needing multiple software and resources to do our jobs and instead gives us a one-stop shop.
  • Allows user to maintain good track of communication that one is having with the customer.
  • Allows the creation of specific queries that we can use to reach students in a more unique way,
  • It is extremely user-friendly!
  • It could provide more ways to communicate, such as direct message or instant message if students are online.
  • It could insert tutorials within the app, so that if you don't understand something you could have easy access to help.
Slate has changed the culture of our office and we are hoping it will eventually change the culture of our entire university. It is easy to understand, efficient, and a lifesaver! We are able to do our jobs and do them better than ever before.
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