If you are reading this, you are probably the parent of a teenager with college aspirations.  As a caring parent, you dream of a happy and successful life for your child -- you are eager to help him/her mature constructively so he/she will have many options and opportunities in the years ahead.

College is probably part of the plan, and you recognize that the world has changed from a generation ago.

In 2010 more than 65% of the estimated 3 million graduating high school seniors will be heading to college. The growing number of college-bound students has fueled intense competition for admission at many colleges and universities.

As a caring parent, you probably have lots of questions. InLikeMe offers lots of answers along with great information and advice from college insiders, professional counselors and successful applicants.

An early start will give you and your teen some extra time to define goals, size up their interests, strengths and weaknesses, and make them attractive to college admission officers. 

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.

Select one of our tabs -- PLANNING, TESTING, SEARCHING, APPLYING, PAYING, etc. -- and you'll find numerous pages of useful information. Check out our Web Links to access many excellent Internet resources for college-bound students. InlikeMe provides direct links to numerous third-party sites. Click on a category to browse our list of sites and descriptions. We also have a special section for ATHLETES and one focused on IVY-League / Highly Competitive Colleges.

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.

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