<p>Digmedia- thanks for your response- you’re right, and my son doesn’t want to just portray the facts; he wants to tell it as a story with two points of emphasis: 1. He does not want to be identified by his disease (ie" the pulmonary embolism in room 7212" [as one less than zero doctor called him- I’m a physician myself and have little regard for many of my colleagues]); 2. As colleges strive to achieve diversity, he would add to the diversity by doing what few students do- dream of a normal , Mayberry-like, life- after all he’s been through, being an average Joe is more important to him than being some hotshot.</p>