Financial Aid Leveraging

Affordability and net price are key factors in college choice today. Understanding how to intelligently leverage your valuable financial aid resources is critical to enrollment success. Go beyond traditional analytics and transform your strategy with College Raptor.

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Competitive insights

Analyzing your historical data is only the first step. We’ve added a completely new dimension to financial aid modeling by using College Raptor’s proprietary algorithms to develop the most insightful awarding strategies possible. In addition to your historical information, we use market research, individual student enrollment predictors, competitor analysis, and more to help you build a truly comprehensive and optimized awarding model, driven by data and designed to achieve your goals.

Full funnel

Financial aid is important at every stage of the enrollment cycle, not just at the time of admission. College Raptor can estimate any student’s SAI at the ZIP+4 level, and that unique capability allows you to model the impact of different pricing and awarding strategies across the full spectrum of your prospective student pool.

Multiple custom strategies

By crafting multiple approaches to financial aid leveraging and modeling each one, we can measure the impact of each aid strategy on your expected enrollment and net revenue per student. We work with you every step of the way to create, test, and execute the optimal awarding plan to achieve your specific headcount, net revenue, and class profile goals.

Customized, continual support

At College Raptor, we build true partnerships with colleges and universities. We work together to realize your goals because that’s how we succeed – together. From initial strategy discussions and data analysis through implementation and enrollment of your class, we’re here to assist, guide, and rally your success through constant access and one-of-a-kind support.

Real results

College Raptor’s unique approach to financial aid leveraging is truly revolutionary, and the year-over-year results speak for themselves:

College #1: Headcount up 15%, Discount down 2.3 points, Net tuition revenue up $1.1M

College #2: Headcount up 6%, Discount down 6.2 points, Net tuition revenue up $1.2M

College #3: Headcount up 22%, Discount down 12.0 points, Net tuition revenue up $2.0M

One campus partner utilizing our financial aid leveraging and predictive modeling service was able to grow its freshman enrollment by 40% in the first year. The following year, they grew another 18% and exceeded their enrollment and net revenue goals.

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Testimonials

“We had used another product for four years and College Raptor is, by far, easier to update, much more cost-effective and user-friendly! College Raptor has been great to work with!”

Mary Gazal, Director of Financial Aid

Saint Vincent College (PA)

“College Raptor has been so easy and friendly to work with. I was so impressed by the assistance and flexibility with our initial setup, and have enjoyed the ease of the continued maintenance ever since. Best decision we ever made!”

Vinny Vincent-Dunn, Director of Financial Aid

Franklin College (IN)

“Our NPC not only fulfills our requirement with the Dept of Ed, but allows us to have a great marketing tool to help our prospective students and families with their admission and financial decisions.”

Melissa Dingmann, Director of Financial Aid

Minnesota State University at Moorhead

“College Raptor’s NPC is a useful tool our institutional recruitment tool kit. Both our undergraduate admissions team and athletics coaches utilize our net price calculator to help students and families understand how affordable the University of Mary is. It has also been a great tool to share with families.”

Karrie Huber, Director of Financial Aid

University of Mary (ND)

“College Raptor changed the way we view our net price calculator. Rather than a necessary tool, our NPC supports our search efforts, enhances our ability to communicate with families, and allows us to identify potential financial aid obstacles before official awarding season.”

Adam Heinitz, Director of Admissions

Augustana University

“The service provided by our representatives at College Raptor is second to none. The responsiveness received from requests we’ve made, depth of information provided, and overall customer service and connection with us as their clients has been top notch.”

Shawn Helmbolt, Director of Admissions

South Dakota State University

“Integration and implementation was very easy. Everyone that I’ve communicated with at College Raptor has been friendly, knowledgeable, and very helpful.”

Jeremy Treme, Director of Financial Aid

Louisiana College

“I absolutely love the features this software provides to our students and their families. College Raptor is a real pleasure to work with.”

Mark Bauer, Director of Financial Aid

Martin Luther College

“College Raptor has always been proactive in reaching out to assist and making sure the product is utilized to its full potential.”

Nate Blanchard, Director of Financial Aid

Neumont College of Computer Science

“College Raptor’s responsiveness in launching our NPC was second to none. I’ve never worked with a third party provider that wanted to get the product live so quickly, while balancing quality of deliverable assets.”

Jonathan Bahr Vice President for Enrollment & Marketing

Spring Arbor University

“The College Raptor staff have been super responsive to our needs as tweaks to our NPC need to be made. They have been a pleasure to work with.”

Evan Wilson, Dean of Admission and Student Financial Services

Illinois College

“I am over the moon happy with the service and responsiveness of the folks at College Raptor. The best part is they do all of the setup and modifications. I have worked with other larger vendors who provided a dismal lack of service and concern for their users, and required the school to do all of the setup and annual modifications.”

Stephanie Rovello, Assistant Director of Financial Aid

Stony Brook University

“We appreciate how responsive and flexible College Raptor has been to work with.”

Pam Perry, Director of Financial Aid

Cornell College

“Very easy to work with, and they are very efficient in getting changes made.”

Joel Wenger, Associate Director of Financial Aid

Purdue University

“We are very pleased with the look and usability of the College Raptor Net Price Calculator. Updating each year is now so much easier than with our previous calculator.”

Susan Young, Director of Student Financial Aid

Bob Jones University

“College Raptor’s calculator has been a great addition to our recruitment toolkit. In addition to their great customer service, the calculator alone has demonstrated how affordable a USD education can be and generated quality leads for our recruitment team.”

Scott Pohlson, Vice President for Enrollment, Marketing & University Relations

University of South Dakota

Do you have any questions? Contact our sales team by email at [email protected] or by phone at (319) 849-7101.