Ditch The Lousy Advice You’re Getting From People Who Don’t Actually Know How Admissions Officers Will Read Your College Applications

What if you could work on your college applications with confidence, motivation, and a minimum of stress?

What if you could take ownership of your college applications and complete them with the benefit of expert advice anywhere you have an internet connection?
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What if you could stop procrastinating and start doing?

What if you could clear out all the conflicting advice you hear… and pay attention to what actually matters to admissions officers?

Inline for College Applications

• A mental reset to start thinking like an admissions officer. Squeezing your whole life into an application form is daunting once you actually sit down to do it. Inline shows you how you to cherry pick and curate the most impressive parts of your background and showcase them best in a very limited amount of space, and how to do all that in a way that will be most effective with your intended audience: admissions officers.
• The benefit of real admissions experience at every step. Created by people who have been actual admissions officers, Inline will show you how to give your applications the edge — how to highlight your extracurriculars, report your test scores (or not!), brainstorm and customize your essays, navigate required disclosures, and understand how seemingly basic or innocent looking questions can actually be tricky and affect the admissions outcome. Inline distills years of experience from reviewing actual college applications and working with thousands of college applicants into practical, strategic help that will make you shine. (It’s not all about us, but if you’re curious, here’s more about us.) Side note: You know what we think when we see current college students dispensing admissions advice? “More fourth graders teaching third graders sex ed.” :)
• Strategic advice when you need it most. You don’t have to read a 300-page book (although if you want to, here you go!) to figure out how to tackle some part of the application or even the entire thing. You don’t have to pay thousands of dollars to a consultant (unless you want to, in which case, here you go!).
  
  Instead, once you’ve downloaded Inline, it opens automatically whenever you launch your Common App® account in your browser. Strategic advice appears in context (inline, even!) right on your screen above each question while you're filling out your application, just when and where you need it most.
• Convenience. One download and you’re done. You’ll need a Common App account, internet access, and the Chrome browser. You can create your own Common App account and start working on your applications as early as Junior year; the information will automatically roll over into your Senior year, and you’ll have access to Inline the whole time. (Note: if you try to download Inline using your school’s internet, you might need to ask the IT supervisor to “whitelist”* it for you. He or she will know what that means. We can also talk with them directly.) *We really hate that word and are very open to alternatives! Help us out, IT community!
• Sample essays. Think you have to write an essay about an earth-shattering topic or curing cancer? Think again. We’ve seen an essay about a pair of jeans that swayed admissions officers at schools that just about everyone has on their Dream School list. You’ll have access to our worksheets and brainstorming tools, as well as a library of sample college application essay, all annotated to show you exactly how an admissions officer evaluates an essay… what’s effective (style, content, tone) and WHY. You’ll also get specialized advice for “Why School X” and other school-specific essays.
• Flexibility to work at your own pace. You determine the pace. You can skip the advice you don’t want or need, and you can drill down into next-level advice when you have the time.
• Privacy. Your college applications will involve a lot of personal and sometimes sensitive information. When you’re using Inline, you’re still entering and saving your work directly in your Common App account. We don’t redirect your answers away from your Common App forms or even see your answers. No behind-the-curtain snooping. We’re not Facebook. :)
• Confidence. You know you’re putting your best foot forward the whole way. You won’t get distracted by the latest shiny admissions advice.
• Advice on when to go that extra mile… and when to hold back. “Should I submit an optional essay?” “Should I submit my scores to this test-optional school?” Sometimes it's a good idea to submit non-required components, and other times it's not. Inline shows you when to submit those extras, and when to hold back. Inline also keeps you from making mistakes that might have a negative impact on the admissions outcome.
• Specialized advice for homeschooled, veteran, and international applicants. Should you be submitting extra test scores if you're homeschooled? How do you select the right start date if you're still on active military duty? When should you go beyond the requirements to show your English proficiency if you're an international student? Inline has you covered with special advice just for you.
• The only tool like this on the market. We were motivated to build Inline because we wanted a tool like this for our readers and consulting clients but couldn’t find one. Why wasn’t there something like TurboTax but for the college application? Why didn’t that already exist for all you motivated digital natives who can DIY your own kick-ass college applications if you have access to expert, on-demand advice? That tool didn’t exist, so we built it. We use it with all our consulting clients, and now you can use it too.