The Values Game

This brief interactive activity will present three cards from a deck of thirty, each marked with a common core value -- in each hand, discard the card of least value to you until you have only one card remaining. That card represents your core value and makes for an excellent place to start thinking about your personal narrative essay for your college applications. In addition, if you discard that final card, you'll get a popup describing strategies for how to apply that core value to your essays!

This exercise is only meant to help you learn more about yourself and guide you in your process -- I developed it for my own students during my work as a college guidance counselor and hope it inspires you just a little.