I talked about a terrifying moment that I had while leading a summer camp group with 45 campers. One camper got seriously injured, and it was up to me to manage the situation and keep everyone safe and under control.

Being deferred from your first choice school can be devastating. On top of that, there are almost no definitive resources on how to proceed from there. Almost all schools say that once you are deferred, they do not want you to send in additional materials. However, when you are deferred, you are going to be analyzed against the entirety of the regular decision pool (even though, looking at numbers, it seems as if schools admit a constant percentage of deferred students year over year). You must set yourself apart and continue to show interest. In my case, I applied to...