<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>
<p>is the personal struggle section limited to just deaths? i mean what do ya'll think could get you points? I am trying to stretch on this one because i think i am a borderline admitee. what if i inflicted alot of physical pain on a sibling and they had to be ambulanced to the er and trauma center and then i said that helped turn around my education perspective and that incident really sparked my upward grade trend? would that work for a couple of points? i am really strecthing i know.</p>