<p>The Brian - very unlikely you’ll receive anything for the teacher death issue, even if you used it as one of your Personal Statement topics. Even then, it would be a bit of a waste to use the subject for one of those; they want to know about you and your accomplishments, not a story about a class’s struggle without its teacher.</p>
<p>Plus, using the death of someone not related to you in hopes of bonus college credit could possibly read very wrong to college admissions.</p>