<p>Hey these are my hooks and ec's. </p>
<p>I am from Afghanistan. My father used to be the Secretary of the Embassy in the United Arab Emirates.</p>
<p>Possible I might join the Engineering Program Yale has for k-12 high school students.</p>
<p>NASA Minority Program for high school students (applying)</p>
<p>volunteer at a local hospital and library.</p>
<p>tutor kids for math and science.</p>
<p>captain and founder of the Science olympiad team for my high school.</p>
<p>oh and I will be applying for HYP, MIT, Darth, and Columbia.</p>
<p>oh and i will also be doing the Columbia SSP this summer</p>
<p>The engineering program at Yale and perhaps the science olympiad--congrats-- sound anywhere from nice to excellent....everything else is average.</p>
<p>Pretty much everybody and their brother volunteers at the hospital/local library. Try and find a volunteer job that corresponds with your interests and makes you stand out from the crowd.</p>
<p>so should i continue to find more programs at Yale and other local colleges? I really also want to work in a lab for anyone. Should I just go around and e-mail professors and research companies?</p>
<p>You do what you can, but only as much as you want. What I think will really help you out is if you're able to present something you've accomplished by these programs, or have overcome. Take some leadership positions too at your own school. Also, do you tutor in accociation with a club, or during your free time? If the latter, you could think about starting up an organization, or contributing to make it a better one.</p>
<p>i do it on my free time.</p>
<p>but the organization thing you mentioned really seems interesting. could you give some possible ideas?</p>
<p>At the beginning of next school year or this summer you'd just have to contact whoever can make an announcement and get a friend or two to help you out. Make clear that you're looking for kids who want to tutor and who need tutoring and if your successful and getting some to meet you (start anew each semester) then you can help people to set up schedules...and that should be it....
Also, my math team goes around to tutor afterschool at local elemetary schools... maybe you could do that as well.</p>
<p>yeah when everything is set up I am going to get my olympiad team to tutor kids but it will all be for free.</p>
<p>will it also help if i can prep kids for the Arabic class in my high school and help them in reading, and writing it. I myself am taking it as my language i have had a straight A+ average in it. I will be self studying Arabic 2 over the summer and taking Arabic 3 self studied with my teacher. </p>
<p>btw i speak 2 languages english and Persian. but i can somewhat understand grammar in Arabic.</p>
<p>but in general will these be good hooks for HYP?</p>
<p>Hmmm, I don't know what the difficulty is on the third year of Arab, but I would think that it has to be an interactive/social experience to learn to speak it. Though, if it it just the language and grammar in 2 and 3 you'll still profit. Besides that, it shows you're determined to do it on your own, and it is worth mentioning that you tutored it effectively.
If and when you get your olympiad team to tutor, make sure that you list it as a separate item on the apps.
Yeah, unless I specify otherwise.. I basically always evaluate in terms of HYP and other ivies.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks for the the information. Yeah our high school is like 1 out of the 84 give or take schools in the United States that has offers it.</p>
<p>you seem rich lol</p>
<p>I seem rich lol? Please explain.</p>
<p>Probably, because the programs are expensive too...</p>
<p>yeah wat he said</p>
<p>Nope I am kind of middle to Upper middle class. A lot of the programs will be paid with scholarships and payment plans.</p>
<p>In my experience colleges would rather you do something like volunteering or something on your own rather than a paid-for program. Usually that doesn't show you're talented, just rich (excuse me upper middle class).</p>
<p>just because you pay for the program doesn't mean it lets anyone join it.</p>
<p>...If it's difficult to get into the programs or if you accomplish something, its worth more than volunteer hours. Anyone can have volunteer hours...it's sickening that people think they're just as effective as a an award.</p>