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Element Admissions Team

AI team automating enrollment from first contact to deposit with agents for recruiting, fraud detection & yield campaigns.

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Written by Michael Stephenson
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Overview

Your Element Admissions AI team guides prospects from first contact through enrollment deposit, handling high-volume outreach, application support, and yield campaigns at scale. Whether your institution has centralized admissions, regional recruitment teams, or specialized counselors by program, these agents seamlessly integrate with your existing structure.

They work both reactively—responding instantly to prospect questions—and proactively through targeted campaigns, ensuring every prospect gets timely, personalized attention while your staff focus on relationship building and strategic initiatives.

Your team includes student-facing agents for recruitment and early outreach, admissions advising, financial aid, and athletics support, plus staff agents for fraud detection, application reading, and appointment preparation.

Now, let's meet the team!


Meet Your Admissions AI Team

Your Admissions AI team is comprised of specialized Bolt Agents for Students that directly engage with students and Bolt Agents for Staff that work behind the scenes to enhance your team's effectiveness. Each agent plays a vital role in optimizing your enrollment funnel.

Bolt Agents for Students

These agents engage directly with students in the following ways:

  1. Proactive + Autonomous (via Bolt Agent Jobs): Takes initiative, reaching out strategically to students with a clear goal (e.g., completing a form, registering for an event), then working the list until the goal is met or the deadline passes.

  2. Reactive + On-Demand (via Conversations): Responds in real time to questions from students and families across all conversation channels (chat, SMS, email, phone, WhatsApp).

🤖 Recruiter Agent

From First Contact to Application. Without Overwhelming Your Team.

The Challenge: Reaching potential prospects and keeping them engaged through the entire journey—from initial outreach to application submission—requires persistent follow-up and personalized communication that's impossible to manage manually at scale, especially with hundreds (or thousands) of prospects.

How the Agent Helps: The Recruiter Agent is your comprehensive enrollment teammate, handling everything from introducing your institution to new audiences to guiding students to submit their applications. It manages early outreach, nurtures inquiries, and maintains consistent engagement throughout the entire enrollment funnel, keeping conversations going automatically while adapting to each prospect's level of interest.

  • Proactive Work: Examples include introducing the university to new prospects from name buys, promoting recruitment events to targeted audiences, welcoming new inquiries and introducing next steps, encouraging application starts, and re-engaging low-engagement prospects at any stage.

  • Reactive Work: Examples include answering questions about majors, deadlines, or visit options, registering students for events, tours, or webinars, sending booking links for recruiter appointments, and directing students to application portals or info pages.

Complements Your Staff: Handles the full spectrum of early-stage outreach and routine follow-up communication, allowing recruiters to focus on high-value relationship building with engaged prospects and strategic enrollment initiatives. It ensures no prospect falls through the cracks while your team focuses on meaningful conversations and complex guidance.

🤖 Admissions Advisor Agent

Guiding Applicants from Submission to First Day.

The Challenge: Once a student applies, consistent communication is needed to keep them moving toward enrollment—reminders, checklists, event invites, and quick answers. Doing that for every student is hard to scale.

How the Agent Helps: The Admissions Advisor Agent is your AI teammate for managing application momentum. It can follow up with applicants and admits automatically, celebrate progress, and help students stay on track, so your team doesn’t have to chase down every missing piece manually.

  • Proactive Work: Examples include encouraging application completion, promoting admitted student events, celebrating progress and driving next steps (e.g., uploading transcripts), and nudging students to complete checklist items (financial aid steps, forms).

  • Reactive Work: Examples include answering application-related questions ("What’s the deadline?", "How do I send transcripts?"), scheduling appointments or sending booking links, registering students for events, linking to forms, portals, and resources.

Complements Your Staff: Supports your team by ensuring no inquiry goes unanswered, no task goes unprompted, and no admitted student is left waiting for help. It automates "always-needed" tasks, freeing counselors for interviews, complex questions, and yield strategy.

Bolt Agents for Staff

These agents work behind the scenes to support your admissions operations. They don’t communicate with students directly. Instead, they assist your team by handling time-consuming backend tasks to reduce administrative burden.

🤖 Application Fraud Detector Agent

The Challenge: With application volumes rising and bad actors growing more sophisticated, it’s tough for staff to catch every risk manually, especially before spending time on file review.

How the Agent Helps: The Fraud Detector Agent is your front-line defender. Working behind the scenes, it reviews every application upon submission, looking for red flags based on your configured criteria. It doesn’t make decisions—it ensures your team knows where to look first.

  • Reviews applications upon submission to identify patterns or anomalies based on your predefined criteria.

Complements Your Team: Prevents wasted time and potential policy violations by surfacing risks early. Your team can review flagged apps first, investigate issues with context, and prioritize time on qualified candidates.

🤖 Application Reader Agent

The Challenge: First reads are time-consuming and often inconsistent, especially during peak season or with limited staff. But every application deserves a fair, structured evaluation.

How the Agent Helps: The Application Reader Agent performs first reviews automatically, applying your rubric to every file that reaches a specified stage. It ensures consistency, speeds up decision-making, and helps your team focus on what matters most.

Key Capabilities:

  • Evaluates your criteria (GPA, essay, test scores), assigns numerical scores per category, generates a final categorical rating (e.g., “Highly Qualified”), and standardizes evaluation across all files.

Complements Your Team: Does not make final decisions, but provides a clear, consistent starting point. It cuts down on variability between reviewers, speeds up evaluation, and makes it easier to triage applications based on objective indicators, freeing staff to dive deeper into applications that need human context.


Cross-Departmental + Funnel Stage Impact

Your Admissions AI team integrates seamlessly with existing enrollment operations, amplifying your staff's impact through proactive outreach and intelligent automation. This section highlights how your AI agents work alongside human staff to drive enrollment success at each key stage of the funnel.

Suspect/Prospect/Inquiry Stages

At these stages, your AI agents handle the complete early enrollment journey—from initial outreach to cold prospects through nurturing engaged inquiries—freeing recruitment staff to focus on relationship building and strategic initiatives with the most qualified prospects.

  • Key Agents:

    • Recruiter Agent

  • Impact on Departments:

    • Admissions/Marketing/Recruitment:

      • Automates introduction to new audiences from name buys, event attendees, or search leads through application start encouragement.

      • Increases RFI completions, inquiry form submissions, and application starts while allowing recruiters to focus on high-value relationship building with engaged prospects and strategic enrollment initiatives.

    • Financial Aid: Can provide preliminary information on scholarships, aid types, and general financial aid processes to generate interest and address early cost concerns during recruitment conversations.

  • Example Jobs:

    • Introduce the university to new prospects from name buys – Welcome new suspects with institutional information and encourage RFI completion

    • Promote recruitment events to targeted audiences – Invite prospects to open houses and info sessions based on interests and geography

    • Launch early engagement campaigns for high school students – Target sophomores and juniors with exploratory content and pathway information

    • Welcome new inquiries and suggest next steps – Thank students for their interest and guide them toward campus visits or application starts

    • Promote academic programs to interested prospects – Share program-specific information based on student interests and career goals

    • Encourage application starts for engaged inquiries – Nudge prospects who've shown sustained interest to begin their application

    • Promote campus visits and tours – Encourage prospects to schedule visits based on their engagement level and interests

Applicant/Admitted Stage

At this critical stage, your AI agents ensure no application stalls and no admitted student lacks support, while staff handle complex reviews, decision-making, and personalized yield strategies.

  • Key Agents:

    • Admissions Advisor Agent

    • Application Fraud Detector Agent

    • Application Reader Agent

  • Impact on Departments:

    • Admissions: Maintains momentum for applicants, reduces missing document follow-ups, increases admitted student event attendance, and drives deposit payments. Staff can focus on interviews, complex cases, and yield strategy.

    • Financial Aid: Guides students through aid processes, connects them with resources, and ensures aid eligibility maintenance.

    • Athletics: Supports student-athletes in maintaining academic eligibility and navigating admissions requirements during busy seasons.

    • International Student Services: Assists with complex immigration-related questions and documentation for international applicants.

  • Example Jobs:

    • Drive application completion for started applications – Follow up with students who've begun but not submitted applications, especially near deadlines.

    • Promote admitted student events – Invite admitted students to yield events like accepted student days and program showcases.

    • Guide decision checklist completion – Help admitted students complete required steps like housing applications and orientation registration.

    • Connect admitted students with financial aid resources – Guide students through aid processes and connect them with financial aid counselors.

    • Encourage deposit payments from admitted students – Provide gentle reminders and support for students approaching deposit deadlines.

Behind-the-Scenes Operations

Your staff-facing agents handle time-intensive backend processes, providing crucial support across the entire funnel and enabling human staff to focus on strategic decision-making and relationship building.

  • Key Agents:

    • Application Fraud Detector Agent

    • Application Reader Agent

    • Appointment Prep Agent

  • Impact on Departments:

    • Admissions/Application Review: Automates initial application screening for fraud and consistent first reads, significantly speeding up review timelines and ensuring fairness.

    • Enrollment Management: Provides critical data and insights by standardizing initial application evaluation.

  • How These Agents Could Support Staff:

    • Application Fraud Detection:

      • Automatically scan submissions for risk indicators and flag suspicious patterns for staff review

      • Provide summary explanations of why applications were flagged with specific evidence

      • Help staff prioritize which applications to review first based on risk levels

    • Application Reading and Scoring:

      • Provide consistent first reads using your rubric, giving staff a standardized starting point for decisions

      • Extract and interpret application materials into normalized formats for easier staff review

      • Generate preliminary decision recommendations with detailed reasoning that cites specific application elements

    • Appointment Preparation:

      • Brief staff on upcoming appointments with a comprehensive student context

      • Compile academic progress summaries and highlight engagement patterns

      • Suggest conversation topics based on student needs and recent interactions


Success Stories in Action

See how your Element Admissions AI team is making a difference on campuses today.

Application Deadline Push

Your admissions team creates a Bolt Job with the goal "Submit Application" and loads a segment of students who started applications but haven't submitted with 48 hours until deadline. They assign the Recruiter Agent with actions to promote the application, provide information about support resources, and schedule urgent appointments. The agent gets to work, sending personalized reminders highlighting each student's specific progress, offering immediate support, and for students who don't initially respond, will continue to follow up until the deadline.

Admitted Student Yield Campaign

Concerned about summer melt, your team creates a job targeting admitted students who haven't engaged with decision materials. They assign the Admissions Advisor Agent with actions to provide information about campus life, promote yield events, and schedule appointments. The agent initiates supportive conversations, addresses common concerns about academics and campus culture, and promotes virtual one-on-one sessions with current students in their intended major.

Financial Aid Education Initiative

Your financial aid office sets up a job for families who received aid packages but haven't responded. They assign the Financial Aid Advisor Agent to provide information and schedule appointments. The agent explains aid packages in plain language, addresses common concerns about costs and payment plans, schedules appointments with staff counselors, and provides resources for additional funding opportunities.


The Bottom Line

Your Admissions AI team doesn't just automate tasks; it amplifies your enrollment strategy. It ensures every prospect receives timely, personalized attention while your human staff focuses on building relationships, making strategic decisions, and handling complex situations that require human judgment. As a result, you get higher application completion rates, improved yield, better student experiences, and an admissions process that scales with your ambitions.

Ready to transform your admissions + enrollment operations? Your AI workforce is standing by, waiting for you to give it a goal.

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