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The Student Referral Roadmap

Turn current students, alumni, and families into a compounding, low-cost enrollment channel.

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Inside this guide, you'll learn:

  • Your best recruiters are already enrolled
  • Four communities that can refer
  • Set up a referral program that runs itself
  • Give advocates something worth sharing
  • Incentives that motivate — and comply
  • Which incentive fits which community?
  • Ad-hoc word of mouth vs. a real referral engine
  • Five referral-program mistakes
  • Launch in 45 days
  • Track the channel like any other

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01Why RGI

This guide comes from operators who've run marketing and owned the enrollment number inside real institutions — managing $300M+ in media and 150+ cohorts across colleges, universities, and trade schools. It's the same playbook we use with our partners.

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