College application

I first heard about ___________through a friend of my mother. She and her husband both graduated from the school, so naturally she had nothing but good things to say about the school. A friend of mine who I waited tables with over the summer is also a student there and raved about the school the entire summer. Once the school year started I really took interest into the school and I found even more friends and acquaintances who had enjoyed their years at _____.

I spent a great deal of time researching schools. On paper, many seemed to fit and I took the opportunity to visit these schools. No one school stood out until I set foot on _____’s campus. There I met a friendly admissions faculty, a...