You need grades and scores to get in, that’s obvious. But are you passionate about learning something, for the sake of learning it? Do you love to read? Do you think about something from the moment you get out of bed, and have the idea or passion spinning around inside? Have you taken your passion and acted on it, watched it mold and take shape, marveling at its beauty. And will that passion translate into some viable part of the college community. And are you the kind of person people like to be with: not the jokster or the clown, or the happy guy giving out freebies… Just simply a nice person. Yes, you can be assertive, buy nice, a leader, without That is what they look for. And if you begin the process thinking it is a crapshoot, that this is a random process you’ve already lost…