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InLikeMe is dedicated to helping high school students (and their parents) define, pursue and realize their college admissions goals.
 
The Founder and Publisher of InLikeMe is Lynn Radlauer Lubell, a graduate of MIT who also earned an MBA from  Harvard Business School.   She is an independent college consultant and the Founder of Admission By Design.

As a Guide to the College Guides, InLikeMe is centered at the intersection of college planning, selection, admissions testing and financial aid with a focus on helping you find your “right fit” schools and develop a strategy to get admitted.  Specifically, we are a hub for the college-bound with a site packed full of information, commentary and advice along with direct links to hundreds of resources and tools.

InLikeMe was founded to overcome frustration with the fragmented nature of the college planning and application process.  There are numerous resources, advisory services and commercial web sites with varying levels of quality and relevance.  But none tie it all together in one practical, easy-to-use site.  Our goal is to be your gateway to this critical set of advice, information search, actions and decisions leading to a higher level of success and a lower level of stress.

To pull all the pieces together, we obsessively scoured the web for resources, read countless books and other publications and participated in the college planning and admission process for our own high school children.  The result, we hope you will agree, is a user-friendly site, organized around the common-sense steps that a teenager or his/her parents would find comfortable, accessible and helpful.   We strive to be your Guide to the College Guides with a site packed full of useful information, commentary and advice along with direct links to hundreds of resources and tools.

Do we provide links to for-profit sites? Yes, we do, because some candidates really do require or would benefit from access to certain types of guidance, testing or assistance that are just not available from school or community resources. But we go much further in terms of identifying cost-free resources, explaining how they can be useful and how they can fit into a sensible and reasonable plan.

The college application process is rife with confusion, anxiety and mis-information. This extends from evaluating colleges, to finding financial aid, to thinking about where a student would find a  strong "fit".  InLikeMe can be invaluable in helping to sort through these impediments, managing all the information, constructing action plans for each year of high school, and in thinking about how a college candidate can position him or herself to get all that they can out of the college experience.

InLikeMe is a community site and we are continuously seeking opportunities to improve and expand our web site and information base. We welcome and appreciate your input and advice! Please use our convenient contact form to share your thoughts, corrections and web link suggestions with us.

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