Latest threads which may be of interest to you.

Do people fill up stuff in the "additional info" section of the common app? Here is a discussion: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/776716-additional-info-sections-applications-pretty-stupid-question.html

Dealing with procrastination: http://groups.google.com/group/nus-high-school-discussion-forum/browse_thread/thread/4740a05fdaf71d41

And an interesting article:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/09/08/colleges_find_juicy_course_titles_swell_enrollment/
Colleges find juicy titles swell enrollment
Boston College German studies professor Michael Resler went searching for a way to boost flagging interest in his “German Literature of the High Middle Ages’’ class a few years ago, and settled on the idea of simply giving the course a sexier name. The resulting “Knights, Castles, and Dragons’’ nearly tripled enrollment.

I've been a bit busy because I have just reached campus and I need time to settle in, so I may not be blogging much for the next week. In the meantime, we have a few new writers who have just come on board.