How Illinois College Engages Unresponsive Admits & Addresses Financial Aid Appeals with LRAPs

View our recorded webinar discussion with Illinois College to explore how Ardeo’s yield tool has helped them engage unresponsive admitted students and address financial aid appeals.

Illinois College, located in Jacksonville, Illinois, first began using LRAPs in 2018 and offered the program to select students. They decided to expand their usage for the 2023-24 cohort – doubling the number of students they enrolled with the program. They offer LRAPs to admitted students who have gone silent, select transfers and to students with financial aid appeals.

During the webinar, Evan Wilson, Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management, discussed their enrollment strategy and how they use Ardeo’s Loan Repayment Assistance Programs to re-engage unresponsive admitted students and shift financial aid appeals conversations from “I can’t come here” to “Yes! I can enroll.”

Evan Wilson serves as the Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management at his alma mater. At Illinois College, Wilson has served for a combined 15 years in the Office of Admissions.

He has previously served in other enrollment roles, including the Director of Admissions for the SIU School of Medicine and the Associate Director of Admissions at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

He hails from Alton, Illinois. Wilson earned his B.A. in

Communications/Theater with a minor in Business Administration from Illinois College in 2001. He earned his MBA from Benedictine University Springfield.

Holland has spent the past decade committed to helping more student’s gain access to higher education. She loves seeing lives transformed through education and the many experiences a college education brings.

Prior to joining Ardeo in 2021, Holland had the privilege of being a client of Ardeo and awarding LRAPs to students at her alma mater, Asbury University (KY). She spent the first 8 years of her time at Asbury in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and her last few years working in Graduate Admissions.

At Ardeo, she loves getting to work with colleges to help with their enrollment goals by helping their students attend without the fear of student debt!