Are you dreading another year of chasing down all the applications in your inbox? For organizations that solicit and process applications, now is the perfect time to take stock of what’s working well and what could be improved. Here are a few questions that may be worth asking your team as we all close outRead More
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Simplify your application process with SlideRoom
When your institution needs to hire a new cohort of interns, what happens? You draft emails, publish the listings, and then wait. Soon, your inbox is flooded with issues, questions, complaints, meeting requests, and stakeholders feeling frustrated. Weeks or months go by and finally, you hire a few interns. Sound familiar? Wouldn’t it be wonderfulRead More
Celebrating 15 Years of SlideRoom with Founder Chris Jagers
As SlideRoom celebrates its fifteenth anniversary, we caught up with its founder, Christopher Jagers, to get his reflections on SlideRoom’s prescient beginnings and its intriguing evolution. Successful products are borne of true need plus the ability to fully recognize that need. When Chris Jagers first conceived of SlideRoom, he was driven by an uber-keen understandingRead More
Reimagining College Access with SlideRoom™ Portfolios
It’s almost impossible to achieve equitable college admissions outcomes and the subsequent success of students without first understanding what motivates passionate, highly qualified applicants. That’s one reason more colleges and universities are using application portfolios as they adopt holistic admissions policies and look beyond traditional metrics such as test scores, essays and letters of recommendation.Read More
See the Whole Picture with SlideRoom™
If you want to discover who your applicants truly are and what they have to offer, it’s no longer good enough to make decisions based exclusively on resumes, references, test scores or transcripts. Instead, you need to expand your view with a portfolio-focused application process that allows students to share what they do and createRead More
SlideRoom Joins Liaison
Leading admissions solution provider to integrate portfolio technology into its Centralized Application Services (CAS™) WATERTOWN, Mass. (September 12, 2017) – In a move that will expand the availability of tools that support strategic college admissions, Liaison International today announced it has acquired SlideRoom. The company is best known for its seamless integration of multimedia componentsRead More
A New Way into Business School
Most business schools have the enviable problem of having significantly more applicants than they can possibly admit. Historically, the solution to this has been separating the admissions decision to the university from the decision to admit into the business school one or two years later. But that presents its own problems. Top-quality students who aren’tRead More