SOPHAS Virtual Recruitment Fair
- 76 students out of 1020 registered for the event indicated an interest in speaking with us prior to the fair
- Actually spoke with over 70 students over the course of 2 days (some that indicated prior interest and some who just browsed in)
- Provided excellent reach to potential students all over the world
- Biggest questions: Costs, GRE scores, how we evaluate applicants, research interests of our faculty, acceptance rates, some limited interest in global health programs and online MPH options
- Excellent faculty participation; idea to have “experts” on-call during the fair in order to ensure maximum efficiency
- Very small cost involved for the school ($200 per virtual fair)
- Want to work on a method to evaluate who from the fair actually filed an application
- SOPHAS Application Check Box
- Cross reference applicant list with fair participant list
- Creating an applicant life cycle for the recruitment plan
- Running our own virtual recruitment fairs (those not sponsored through SOPHAS); recruiting students with certain GRE scores, Western NY, other regional areas
- 100% of faculty respondents thought the fair was very productive
- Reached more students than usual with one time program
- Had many visitors
- Connected with lots of interested students in a short time
- Faculty liked moderator taking the initial questions and farming them out to appropriate faculty/staff who could then answer in a private chat; moderator also answered general questions and provided frequently asked questions periodically throughout the chat
- Communicate to students ahead of time when reps from certain concentrations would be available
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