How getting these few things right can make all the difference on a college application Are you familiar with the Pareto’s principle? It’s also known by a few other names, like the 80/20 rule and the Law of the Vital Few. Regardless of what you call it, this principle states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. It was named after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto who noted back in 1896 that approximately 80% of the land in Italy was o