One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

To help you evaluate how your strengths stack up, you can build models based on statistical profiles of recent freshman classes at the schools, data on their applicant pools, and analysis of other primary sources of information. And of course realism is important. You do not want to place all your bets on colleges where you have little chance of getting in. At the same time, you don't want to be frightened away from colleges where your chances may be much higher than you think.

Should he go to jail? I don't know. I think his name, his reputation, what he's been put through and will be put through for the next several years _ his reputation and his career have already been ruined.

Use your free time for self-development. Listen to motivational or educational cassettes while driving to work.