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Andrew B. Palumbo
Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid
Adam Epstein
Director of Undergraduate Enrollment Services
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA
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Goals
● Unified system for Admissions and Financial Aid
● Single portal for prospective students
● Same portal and user experience for current students
● Improve information sharing between offices
● Elevate communication and customer service
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Discovery
● What are we doing now? What remains the same? What changes?
● How do we translate it to Salesforce?
● How can we use TargetX?
● What custom development is needed?
● Change tolerance & management
● Our Salesforce Instance
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Implementation & Development
● Banner is system of record for Financial Aid
● Custom objects to store Financial Aid data
● Visualforce page for decision letters
● Apex Class to customize letter with Financial Aid Details
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Automation
● January–July 2017 – initial implementation
● July 2017 – go-live with Salesforce/TargetX platform
● October 2017 – go-live with applicant portal
● December 2017 – go-live with applicant letters
● May 2018 – go-live with student portal
● July 2018 – go-live with student letters
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Thank You
Andrew B. Palumbo
Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid
abpalumbo@wpi.edu
Adam Epstein
Director of Undergraduate Enrollment Services
adam@wpi.edu