The Common Application Facebook Page revealed another significant change to the application: Since many of you are asking: the current short answer question (discuss...
Essay Prompts Announced for 2013 -2014 Common Application
The 2013-2014 Common Application will include five new “personal statement” essay prompts. The new admission application prompts were created to enable applicants to tell...
Indiana University Bloomington Preview in South Florida
The Indiana University Office of Admissions will be hosting a Preview event in South Florida for students applying to the university for Fall 2013...
Emory University Admits Misreporting Admissions Data
Atlanta’s Emory University joined the growing list of colleges and universities admitting to misreporting student data used for rankings purposes. Claremont McKenna College in...
UF Freshman Application for 2012-2013 Goes Live
Attention University of Florida Prospective Applicants for 2013: The UF application for freshman admission is now available. The freshman application deadline is November 1....
2012 – 2013 Admissions Season Begins with Launch of Common Application
Rising high school seniors wishing to get a jump on their college applications should know that the Common Application went live in the evening...
Presidential Debate to be Held at Lynn University
Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida will be the venue for the final 2012 Presidential Debate. The event will take place on Monday, October...
FSU Application Essay Prompt for 2013 Admission
Florida State University (FSU) Admission has stated that the essay topic for Freshman admission will remain the same as last year. According to the...
Offbeat Application Essays: University of Chicago
Long known for its mind-stretching application essay prompts, The University of Chicago topics for 2013 give applicants prime opportunity to tell about themselves, their...
2013 Fiske College Guide Available July 1, 2012
The bible is out! The new edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013, 29E is now available. For more than 20 years, the...
Shrinking the Cost of College
Merit scholarships, tuition discounts, enrollment management and colleges/universities offering strong educational “values” were popular topics at the Spring 2012 HECA (Higher Education Consulting Association)...
Essay Prompts Announced for 2012-13 Common Application
January 19, 2012 --- The Common Application Association announced that the essay prompts on the 2012-13 Common Application will be
Freshman Applications Dip at Harvard, Penn and Columbia
Freshman applications to Harvard for the Class of 2016 fell nearly 2% after the college reinstated its early action program. Harvard received 34,285 applications...
UC Applications Up 13% Following Admissions Policy Change
Jan 12, 2012 – The University of California reported a 13% increase in students applying for undergraduate admission, driven by an increase in out-of-state applications...
Glimpse Inside the Ivy League’s Academic Index
Bill Pennington, of the New York Times wrote a very interesting piece about the Academic Index, a somewhat mysterious tool used by Ivy League institutions...
Common Application Update & Reminders
The Common Application released these statistics (as of December 15, 2011) along with 2010* comparisons: Individuals Applicants 411,799 (+19%) Submissions Applications 1,372,017 (+20%) School...
MIT Launches Online Learning Initiative
MIT’s new online learning initiative is focused on enhancing the educational experience of MIT students and the virtual community of learners throughout the world....
Harvard College Admits 18% of Early Applicants
December 15, 2011 — Harvard College announced that it accepted 18% of 4,231 early action applicants to the Class of 2016. These 772 students...
Penn Accepts 47% of Class of 2016 from Early Decision Pool
The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that Penn’s early decision acceptance rate declined by almost 1 percent, from 26.1% last year to 25.4%, as announced by...
Stanford Admits 755 Early Action to Class of 2016
Dec 9, 2011 -- Stanford's Office of Undergraduate Admission sent acceptance letters to 755 applicants seeking admission to the Class of 2016 through...
Students Advised to View College Marketing Mailings with Skepticism
Many students receive unsolicited marketing materials from top universities. Often these mailings include a personalized letter congratulating the student on strong PSAT scores...
About Lynn Lubell
Lynn Radlauer Lubell is the Publisher of InLikeMe.com, an internationally renowned website for college-bound students, parents and guidance counselors, and the Founder of Admission by Design, an educational consultancy.
A graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School, Lynn is a professional member of IECA and a member of HECA. She has broad expertise in college admission strategy and planning.
Lynn served on the MIT Educational Council for ten years interviewing hundreds of undergraduate applicants.
Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Admission by Design, consults with students and families in South Florida and beyond.