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Below is miscellaneous things I've thought of or that have come up time and time again when talking to prospective converts:

Unfortunately many rabbis and other Jews are unable to speak in a way that prospective converts can understand. And many times they hear something that isn't be said or thought. I hear the following so frequently from prospective converts (and frequently from BTs) "no rabbi wants to work with me" when I ask why they think that they tell me:

• Rabbi told me to go read/do this for x months - obviously he was telling me to go away - when in reality he meant exactly what he said if he didn't want to have anything to do with the prospective convert he simply would have said "I don't work with converts" - I've been told by a number of rabbis that this is how they know that 99% of the people coming to them to convert are NOT serious
• Rabbi didn't return call, letter, or email - obviously he doesn't want to work with me - reality - rabbis are very busy and many are not good with computers and misplace messages - my advice - call, show up at weekday minyan or during his office hours and ask to make an appointment - the more he sees you in shul, at classes, through email, calls, and letters the more serious he will take you
• People are looking at me - I know they are all thinking what is that "goy" doing here - reality (I learned to ask after I got to know people) - who is that, should we know her/him, wonder why they are here
• No one spoke to me at shul/class/social event - I know they are all thinking what is that "goy" doing here - reality (I learned to ask after I got to know people) they were so busy catching up with people it didn't occur to them to "welcome" the newbie

Personal Statement - This document may help you in interviews and meetings with Rabbis and Beit Dins.  I recommend updating this regularly with new information and putting the date of the new information next to the update.

Study Guide Questionnaire - These are questions that may be asked by your beit din.  If you fill this form out, ask your rabbi questions you don’t understand, and even bring copies with you to your rabbi and later to your beit din (having something to refer to is a great help during the beit din nervousness), you may find this helps you feel prepared.  Many of these questions have a number of “correct” answers. 

Steps to Take for Conversion - This document is merely an outline of step to take for gerus including suggested order of learning and mitzvot observance with clarifications. There are Batey Din that will ask more or less than is suggested in this document.  Go over this document with your rabbi and periodically review it with him.

Here are some draft Microsoft documents I'm working on related to conversion and some of the links may not work as they were done for an orthodox conversion yahoo group I co-moderate.  All of these documents are probably useful to anyone converting but they are from an orthodox perspective.

• Preparing for and meeting with the Beit Din
• Why Do I need to move to a Community?
• Emotional Highs, Lows, and Depression during and after conversion
• Secularly Married to or involved with a Jew and converting
• Preparing for your meeting with a Rabbi
• Advice on taking on observances and working with your rabbi advice
• What did the Rabbi mean when he said x at our meeting?
• Stages many of us go through during conversion and becoming more observant  

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