Are these considered to be hooks for my admission?

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<p>Hey everyone,</p>

<p>I discovered the term 'hooks' just recently while I was looking through acceptance threads for some schools and I was wondering if some of my stats could be considered hooks. (I don't even know what the precise hooks are since people name a big variety of them haha.)</p>

<p>I'm half Dutch, half Tunisian (not muslim though), and am born and raised in a town near Amsterdam. I have finished the Dutch HAVO curriculum (second highest form of secondary education), I graduated in 2010. I chose to do the IB diploma programma though, and am now finishing DP1. I have been working in retail stores in Amsterdam since my 15th so since 2008, and have been financially responsible for all things besides primary needs such as school, food and housing. My birth certificate says I only have 1 parent (my mom) and a guardian (my grandma). So there is a single parent income. Also first generation of pursuing to attend university. </p>

<p>Ehm so yeah.. Any comments are much appreciated :) I dont even know if you can judge hooks by themselves or that you have to know the allround application.</p>

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<p>These are just features of note about you but are not “hooks”. Hooks are features that, when colleges find them, they go out of their way to recruit and/or admit those students. Very few people have hooks. That term gets bandied about too much here.</p>

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<p>“Hooks” are : 1) Recruited athlete 2) Legacy (how much of an advantage varies from college to college) 3) Child of a famous person 4) Family has donated a substantial amount of $ to the college 5) Race / Nationality / Geographic region from is a demographic college is looking to fill & doesn’t have any other applicants with it.</p>

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<p>Haha oh wow then I totally misunderstood the meaning. Yeah on here it has been used in a different way. Thanks for the replies though!</p>