Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:52 a.m.

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Facebook ventures into college admissions

College Planner application lets students apply to 39 undergraduate institutions

Contributing Reporter
Published Tuesday, October 30, 2007

While Yalies put last-minute touches on their Halloween costumes this week, high school seniors are facing a more daunting task: finishing up their early applications to college.

A new Facebook application named College Planner — introduced last week by the educational services company Embark — aims to relieve some of that stress and streamline the admissions process for students applying to undergraduate and graduate institutions by offering a network of fellow applicants, a research database of over 5,000 school profiles and online applications for some of the universities,...

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