EnGauge Scores

Cutting-Edge AI, Expert Human Oversight

Smarter enrollment with engagement scores.

Struggling to predict which students will apply and enroll? Carnegie’s EnGauge Scores offer a breakthrough solution using advanced AI-powered machine learning models to deliver highly precise forecasts, transforming how you recruit and enroll students.

Accurate, automated, and actionable—these are not the engagement scores of the 2010s. They will improve how you spend your time and money, maximizing your resources and enrollment outcomes.

EnGauge Scores are a game-changing feature of Carnegie’s Student Search.

What makes Carnegie’s EnGauge Scores different?

Our scores combine behavioral, geodemographic, and Carnegie proprietary data, making them uniquely accurate. They are custom-built for your institution and loaded into Slate (your instance or ours), ensuring they are the most agile and automated scores on the market. EnGauge Scores drive enrollment success because we partner on team training and ongoing strategic consultation to ensure your scores are adopted and actionable.

What are the key advantages of EnGauge Scores?

We provide experts in both modeling and Slate to custom-build your EnGauge Scores in Slate (your instance or a Carnegie-hosted instance).
We provide consulting and design strategies based on your scores for improved results.
We train your entire team so everyone is equipped to use these impactful data points.
Carnegie offers an automated dashboard to make day-to-day work frictionless.
Our team does all the heavy lifting to deliver actionable EnGauge Scores.
Because our scores are accurate, automated, and actionable, they are better than other scores on the market and will be a
game-changing feature of your Student Search.

How are EnGauge Scores used to impact enrollment?

EnGauge Scores support strategic decision-making and facilitate the efficient use of your limited resources to
impact enrollment outcomes. Here are just a few ways to activate EnGauge Scores:

Determine who should receive a mailer, phone call, or other appeal.
Strengthen conversations during counseling or campus visits using student engagement data.
Optimize future name purchases by identifying trends within the lowest scoring cohorts.

What else comes with the EnGauge Suite?

Consulting: All EnGauge Scores come with consulting, which includes evaluating which variables your institutional score should include, how to interpret the score once it’s live, and what optimizations can be made based on your results.
Training: We provide training for your staff because these scores are most impactful when adopted widely and truly understood.
EnGauge Dashboard: The EnGauge Dashboard is built in your Slate instance (or ours), which provides data visualization for outcomes reporting and filters for data manipulation to inform institutional decisions.

The EnGauge Dashboard is built in your Slate instance (or ours), and offers data visualizations for strategic insights and action lists for day-to-day activity (shown here).

See How the EnGauge Suite Works

Watch this quick overview to discover how Carnegie’s EnGauge Suite transforms the data already in your Slate instance into accurate, actionable models. You’ll learn how we optimize existing Slate modules for secure data management, explore the all-new EnGauge Dashboard, and see how our team partners with yours to elevate enrollment strategy and drive student engagement.

94% Accurate Predictions, Backed by AI

In Fall ’25, EnGauge Apply models predicted application behavior with 94% accuracy across partner institutions. That means smarter targeting and better planning—because you can trust the data to match reality.

93% Enrollment Prediction Accuracy

EnGauge Enroll models nailed their predictions too—coming in at 93% accuracy. That’s real confidence in knowing who’s truly likely to enroll.

50x More Likely to Reach a Real Applicant

When schools focused outreach on students with the highest EnGauge Apply scores, they were 50 times more likely to be talking to a future applicant compared to lower-score groups. That’s efficiency that drives outcomes.

14x More Likely to Reach an Enrollee

Want to boost yield? Focusing on top EnGauge Enroll scores made it 14 times more likely to connect with a student who actually enrolled. Spend smarter. Convert more.

Georgia Southern University Success

Georgia Southern University, a Student Search partner and EnGauge Apply + Enroll Score partner for the 2024 and 2025 enrollment cycles, used EnGauge Scores to optimize their first-year recruitment strategy. They exceeded enrollment expectations in both 2024 and 2025, seeing year over year gains. Using their score results and in consultation with the Carnegie team, Georgia Southern made strategic optimizations that impacted their success. These included prioritizing application deadline calls, which reduced call volume while increasing applications; refining their financial aid contact list to focus on students who needed it most; and cutting back on postcard mailings, resulting in significant cost savings, to name a few.

This partnership led to:

39%

Increase in applications over 2 years

30%

Increase in deposits over 2 years

Increase in 2025 yield, resulting in the largest first year class in institution history

The EnGauge Score process helped our recruitment initiatives greatly by allowing us to refine our efforts and spend our time and money working with the right students. We used our scores to target students for multiple outreach campaigns and print mailings, ultimately allowing us to put our resources where they mattered the most and saving us time and money while exceeding all of our undergraduate enrollment goals.

Caleb Rogers

Former Associate Director of Admissions and Recruitment