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Get in touch with us sooner rather than later, so we can get a head start on planning your fabulous future. Ask questions early on, way before you submit your application. Applications are accepted and considered on a rolling basis year round!

IMPORTANT: Write your essay first, because it must be uploaded before the application will submit. Don’t stress over the essay. And don’t procrastinate! We just want to see who you be! So be yourself—-tell your story—-make an impression. It is iimpossible to fail this assignmnt.

Compose a 1-2 page essay from ONE of the following prompts:

• Pay it Forward Watch the movie, if you haven’t seen it! Do you think this concept is important as we go through life? When you graduate and embark on a rewarding career, what would you contribute to those still struggling with the challenges that arise from by having a parent locked up? What were the most difficult situations that you faced? Can you remember a time when someone did something that really made a difference in how you dealt with a situation?

• Survival of the Fittest “What doesn’t kill you, only makes you stronger” That old saying is a bit abrasive, but sometimes life feels so tough. It helps us to think of it as a challenge and never give up. Are you at the point where you can appreciate your own resiliency and tenacity? We have all said “why me?”, but can you see yourself rising above it all? More often than not, we do not like the cards we are dealt, but we can still win the game. And winning with a bad hand?—-that’s a real shining star. When you can take life of lemons and make lemonade? Sure, it would be nice to live on Easy Street without constant struggles. But you can be an overcomer, surpassing all expectations in spite of the challenges you have faced. In fact, perhaps this life was mapped out this way as a training camp to become a real leader and role model.

• Break the Cycle Write a mock letter to your parent on how important it is to break this cycle of incarceration. Talk about your lifelong dreams and how you plan to carry them out. Tell them how difficult life has been without them present. Explain the statistical likelihood of repeating the mistakes and your solid plan to break the cycle, Come up with your own psychological theory of why something like incarceration becomes a cycle in a family. In other words, why would a person recreate the same traumatic events that they endured as a child into their own family?
  
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