Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you? Deb always had a spark, a zest for life and all things living. Whenever I visited her we hiked the trails she loved so much, and she always found new adventures, new areas of the wilderness to explore, or a story so astonishing I wouldn't have believed it had anyone else told it to me. The...

I chose topics that mattered to me on deeper level than simply getting noticed by an admissions officer. Not everyone has a life-changing experience by the time he or she is ready to apply to college, and rather than try to manufacture one, it's best to choose something that you can write about authoritatively, but more importantly that highlights something that is important to you. If you find something you really want to write about and that you feel provides...

Road To College consulting - I met with Chuck Hughes several...