HOW STUDENTS ARE FINDING WHICH SCHOOLS TO APPLY TO · Higher education

LECOM

LECOM hired us in December 2025 with a plain problem: when a prospective student asked an AI which osteopathic school to consider, LECOM barely came up. For a school competing for applications, being absent from the tool students now open first is a quiet, expensive leak.

The brief was to raise how often LECOM gets named in AI answers, and to turn that into a real source of applications. Not vanity mentions. A new channel into the funnel.

So the anchor program was built around it. One long-form video a month, answering the questions applicants actually ask, then cut into shorts, blogs, press, and posts placed on every surface where those questions get asked.

Top-line results · AI visibility

46%
of AI answers about osteopathic medicine now name LECOM.
from 6% in eight months
#1 of 9 schools Avg. rank 2.4 Positive sentiment
Tracked across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google.

LECOM vs the field

Share of AI answers naming the school

LECOM
 
46%
Next-ranked school
 
13%
3.5× the nearest osteopathic school

Ahead of PCOM, Michigan State, and the rest of the field, none of which clears 13%.

Source: AI visibility tracker, since December 2025, across tracked osteopathic-medicine questions in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google. Visibility = share of answers that name the school.

Satisfied enough with the results that LECOM added a dedicated monthly video contract on top of the AI work, before the first year was out.

The work

7
Long-form videos
70+
Short videos
16
Blog articles
5
Press releases
 
Anchor · 16:9

A few of the shorts:

 
9:16
 
9:16
 
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