As graduation swiftly approaches, I'm bombarded every day with what students are doing after high school. They come in and excitedly share that they were accepted to their dream school, their reach school, the local school, their parent's alma mater, the place where they will have a full ride, or a sweet scholarship. They are thrilled to go into the military, to land a coveted summer internship, to join the family business, to pursue their passions, or take a gap year. They ask for advice, they jump up and down, and they all smile about the possibilities of the future. But no two stories are the same. No two students want or need the same thing during high school, let alone after. I think about this constantly. If the needs are so varied, how do we help them all? Consider the following examples, (all of which are true). In one graduating class, we had a student who was mature, and academically successful, but whose ACT score didn't reflect that. That student took advantag