<p>When you fill out the application you are going to have to fillout your status (citizen, permanent resident, etc) If you have not recieved permanent residency or atleast your registration # you will be considered an international student.</p>
<p>Props to ellemenope for the following posting:</p>
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I copied this from a college admissions handbook given to 9-10 graders at a private school. It has some items on there that you wouldn't necessarily think are hooks (like being full-pay), but can tip the scales come admissions time.</p>
<p> Male applicants. Male applicants in general are
favored over females in many selective
coeducational admission pools, simply because
they are now a demographic minority in the
United States.</p>
<p> Females interested in engineering, computer
science, and technical fields. Some coed
institutions have made it an institutional priority
to recruit young women interested in these
areas, in the interest of improving gender equity
in technical professions.</p>
<p> Student- athletes of real talent, who are strongly supported
by coaches, and who truly desire to
compete at the college or university level</p>
<p> African- American students.</p>
<p> Hispanic- American students.</p>
<p> Native- American students, especially those who
can prove tribal roll status, and who are
conversant with a tribal culture.</p>
<p> Full- pay students. At many institutions,
students who can pay full freight, and who do
not apply for financial aid, have an edge.</p>
<p> Legacieschildren of financially generous
parents. More distant relations have less of an
advantage.</p>
<p> Applicants who are well- known to powerful
alumni in the personal and academic sense.
Alumni assistance of this kind weakens
considerably if the alum is acquainted with the
applicants parents, but not the applicant.</p>
<p> In- state residential applicants to state
universities.</p>
<p> Applicants with evidence of substantial creative,
artistic, or academic talent, particularly those
who plan to major or contribute in the area of
their special talents or accomplishments in their
college or university. Successful special talent
applicants should be able to supply evidence of
that talent in the form of honors, recognition, or
awards at the state or national level.</p>
<p> Applicants with evidence of very substantial
contributions to school or community service. In
the latter case, the applicants commitment to
community service would have to go far beyond
the community service IB diploma
requirement.</p>
<p> National Merit, National Achievement, or National
Hispanic Semifinalist or Finalist status.
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<p>however one of the biggest hooks is the institutional mission What Dartmouth is looking for when crafting the class of 2010</p>
<p>From the Article: How Admission Decisions Are Made</p>
<p><a href="http://unionplus.educationplanner.com/education_planner/c_and_p_article.asp?articleName=How_Admission_Decisions_are_Made&sponsor=2866&PageType=Applying-Parents%5B/url%5D">http://unionplus.educationplanner.com/education_planner/c_and_p_article.asp?articleName=How_Admission_Decisions_are_Made&sponsor=2866&PageType=Applying-Parents</a></p>
<p>A hook, in admission parlance, is any additional advantage that makes a candidate attractive to a particular college. This will vary from school to school and from year to year. Some candidates may try to hide their hooks, preferring to be admitted on only merit (parents tend to discourage this) while others will fight furiously to exploit even the most inconsequential connections. Such hooks may include athletic ability, minority status, veteran status, alumni connections, special talent (e.g., art, music, theater, writing, etc.), underrepresented socioeconomic background (e.g., first-generation college), geography, gender, VIP status, ability to pay full tuition, or miscellaneous institutional needs.</p>
<p>Having a hook can give a candidate a higher rating from the get-go or can pull an application from the deny pile and put it into the admit (or wait list) stack. Hooks come into play most often when judging equally qualified candidates. For example, if a college has to select one of two students who look the same on paper, and one is the daughter of an alumnus and the other is not, the daughter is probably going to get in over the non-connected student.</p>
<p>However, no matter how well connected or how gifted a student is outside of the classroom, if he doesnt have the grades or the ability, he wontor shouldntbe admitted. And, if he does get admitted for special reasons, those connections wont guarantee that he will succeed. One college even had to turn down its own presidents son!</p>
<p>The hooks below are the ones discussed most oftenand most passionately in admission committee meetings:</p>
<p>Alumni Connections
Athletes
Students of Color
Talent in the Arts</p>
<p>The Invisible HookInstitutional Needs</p>
<p>One reason that an applicant is admitted to a particular college while a similar- seeming (or even less able) applicant is not can be due to a fuzzy factor known as "institutional needs." These needs, explains Amherst Colleges Katharine Fretwell, are likely to vary from college to college, andeven within a single schoolfrom year to year. One season, says Fretwell, an institution may be after more women, Midwesterners, or hockey goalies; the next time around it could be scientists or string musicians. "Applicants do not have control over these needs and are rarely aware of them," she notes. "And, according to outside observers (candidates, their counselors, parents, or classmates), the influence of these priorities may create some mysterious admission decisions."</p>