Although I still have several years until I am actually going to be applying to grad school, learning about the process was invaluable. When applying to college in high-school I only really figured things out as they came up. Luckily, my school had amazing college counselors that helped everyone through the process, but I didn’t ever have a good top-down understanding of the process until it was over. This made some things extremely stressful as I would find out about some requirements without too much lead time. Luckily, everything turned out just fine and I didn’t miss any deadlines, but I certainly believe it could have been less stressful had I fully understood the process earlier on. Since I think there’s a good chance that I might go to grad school, I wanted to make sure I got that top-down understanding early on, well before actually starting the process. Attending a simple, no-stress event that quickly and clearly provided all of the pertinent information was exactly what I was hoping for, and was exactly what was provided. I think small events like this early on are extremely beneficial both to college students thinking about grad school, and high schoolers considering college.