One purpose of a college education is to create active and engaged citizens and future leaders. If everyone wants students who have the potential to become such people, it is necessary to keep in mind the skills involved in good citizenship and positive leadership when evaluating applicants. Many of the leaders who have gotten the world into its current messes did well on admissions tests and attended prestigious colleges and universities. The problem is not that those leaders are not smart; they are. The problem is that they lack--and their colleges and graduate schools evidently did not teach them--certain important skills, attitudes, and values involved in being good citizens and successful leaders. In this article, the author describes the WICS (an acronym for "wisdom, intelligence, and creativity, synthesized") model and discusses how this model can be applied to assessments that can be used in college and university admissions. The basic idea of the model is that active and engaged citizenship--as well as leadership--requires individuals to synthesize creative skills, to produce a vision for how they intend to make the world a better place for everyone; analytical intellectual skills, to assess their vision and those of others; practical intellectual skills, to carry out their vision and persuade people of its value; and wisdom, to ensure that their vision is not a selfish one.