Don't want the admissions people to find out that an adult helped you on your college essay? Here are topics, words and punctutation symbols to avoid:

- Acid Reflux

- Ponzi schemes

- Backslashes/forward slashes

- Chemical peels

- Farmers Markets

- Back trouble

- Pilates

- How your contractor ripped you off on your outdoor firepit

- The words  "aforementioned" and "notwithstanding'; in fact, I would think twice about any compound word other than "snowman."

Good luck – you still have over 72 hours.  A friend of CJ's reports that he has been holed up for four days in a hotel room in a ski resort trying to finish his apps.  Good luck to him and all the aforementioned.