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Admissions, enrolment and student-services assistants
In short
Enquiry and advising assistants grounded in the institution's own documents: where deflection is genuinely safe, where a human has to take the question back, and what the CRM has to know once the conversation ends.
7 pages
definitions
- A conditional offer, and the sentence an assistant may say about itThe offer is a contract with a checklist attached. Software can read the checklist back accurately and cheaply; the moment it decides whether a result satisfies an item, it has made an admissions decision.definition8 min
- Award letter line items an assistant may read but must not explainFive kinds of line, each meaning something slightly different at every institution that prints one. That variance is why an assistant should quote rather than explain.definition6 min
- What a deferral changes in the record — and what it does notA deferral looks like a date change and behaves like a re-issue: 7 things are bound to the intake term, and moving it re-dates each of them.definition6 min
diagnostics
- Applicants ask where their application is, and the assistant quotes the handbookThe highest-volume question in an admissions inbox is about one specific application, and a corpus of policies can never answer it. The missing component is an authenticated lookup with an identity check in front of it.diagnostic11 min
- Every escalation creates a second enquirer record in the CRMContact counts inflate, follow-up mail goes twice and advisors see fragments of one conversation — because the assistant wrote a record at the moment it knew least about who it was talking to.diagnostic10 min
- The assistant is answering with last year's fee scheduleWhen an enrolment assistant quotes a superseded year, the model is behaving correctly and the index is wrong: both years are in there, nothing marks one as current, and the older file usually retrieves better.diagnostic11 min
- The Hindi answer and the English policy page say different thingsBack-translate a fixed set of high-stakes answers and compare them against the source page. Numbers, conditions and hedges are where the divergence lands, and each pattern points somewhere different.diagnostic9 min
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