<p>Would having Uni-lateral hearing loss be considered a hook? How much will it help in college admissions?</p>
<p>It sucks not to have hearing in one hear, so i'm trying to get as much out of it as possible.lol. If it can help me get into harvard, then so be it...</p>
<p>~You'llsee...</p>
<p>I would expect that this condition would be admissions neutral. Good luck with all of your applications.</p>
<p>Depends on how you play it off.</p>
<p>Agreed. I'm applying with some complicated disability related material (PM for more info if desired) and I wrote about how the obstacles I have forced to overcome have shaped me (not the: I'm SOOO glad I developed X disease or Y wouldn't have happened) but more of an honest appraisal of the effect my trials have had on me, their impact in who I am becoming and their influence on me to find the true "Froghorn" despite them.</p>
<p>Colleges won't consider it a hook. But it can be used to explain how you overcame difficulties, etc.</p>
<p>I don't know if it's a hook, but i don't think it SHOULD be a hook.</p>
<p>A word o warning: admission officers can very well see when a student with a minor disability tries "to get as much out of it as possible". Ater all, about 50% of the kids can find something that complicated their life to the same extent as uni-lateral hearing loss complicated yours. Vision problems, migranes, diabetes, obessity, eating disorders, back problems, injuries - everyone has somethng and deals with it on an everyday basis. Don't forget that your admission officer or his kids may have a similar or even more serious problems and see no point in focusing on them and telling other people about them. In this case your essay will really hurt you. Try to look at it differently: is this the only thing that distinguishes you from others; is this the most important thing that you want to tell about yourself?
With all this said, there can be situations when you had a much harder time dealing with your disability than other people in a similar situation. Like a kid with 95% hearling loss who was never taken to a doctor and had to lip-read for years is different from a kid who was diagnised early and provided with a hearing-aid. Then it's can be a very different story.</p>
<p>I'll just mention it and see what happens. It's not like I need this as a hook to get into harvard anyway, I could do without it. </p>
<p>ps: I don't see how obessity or eating disorders can compare to hearing loss, seeing as how the formers are self-inflicted and the latter cannot be controled/prevented. </p>
<p>but thanks for your responses guys...</p>
<p>I don't know how much it can help with admission, but you might want to look into scholarship related opportunities. My brother has a hearing-impairment and I think I recall that he had a chance to apply for for an "Alexander Graham Bell" scholarship. I do not recall any instance in which the fact that he was hearing impaired gave him an advantage.</p>
<p>By the way, obesity is not always self-inflicted, it can often be caused by thyroid problems and whatnot and can in no way be controlled or prevented either. And even though eating disorders are in a sense self-inflicted and can be controlled/prevented, it is important to remember that no one chooses to have a disorder.</p>