<p>Geography - South Carolina
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Sikorsky:
A hook is a quality of an applicant that meets a college or university’s institutional want or need. For example, most colleges have a football team, and football teams need linebackers. So if you’re one of the most sought-after high-school linebackers in Texas, that’s a hook. Most colleges need generous donors. If you come from a family that is likely to bestow a major gift on the college, you’re hooked. Most colleges want their alumni to be happy. Happy alumni donate to the college, and happy alumni are also good PR for the college. One way to make alumni happy is to give their children a leg-up in admissions. So if you’re a legacy, admitting you would help fulfill an institutional want. Many colleges like celebrity students. When Emma Watson applied to Brown, and Chelsea Clinton applied to Stanford, they were hooked.
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<p>And to add to this: being an underrepresented minority or black, hispanic/latinos, native american, alaskan native</p>
<p>Oops, how did I forget URMs? Thanks, cortana.</p>
<p>Asians can also be hooked at schools where they are not represented to a larger degree for instance South Carolina and Alabama. Whites can be hooked to HBCUs.</p>
<p>Oops got it nevermind</p>