<p>Hey! I'm just wondering if I have a specific "hook" or somethng that I should emphasize in my applications:
Grades:
6th Grade: 3 A's and 2 A-'s in English and Accelerated Math
7th Grade: A's in Spanish and Science (98.5% Average in Science), A's or A-s in social studies, and B+'s or A-'s in Honors Pre Algebra and English
8th Grade: First Term: Socila Studies: A- 94% English A- 92%, Honors Science (very high-level, puts me one year ahead of my peers in high school) A-, 92%, Spanish A 99%, Regular Algebra, A 96%</p>
<p>I play the alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, piano, and I am learning guitar.
I play the alto*sax in regular Symphonic Band and selctive Wind Ensemble, and the Tenor Sax in my school's award-winning jazz band. I have played the saxophone for 5 years, guitar for 2 years, and piano for about 8 years.
I have been on my towns swim team for 5 years. Our team is the best in the league, and we have only lost 3 meets in the past 10 seasons, and we win championships every year. The girl's high school team in my town is nearly always state+regional division 2 champions, and is often the national champions as well.
I love art, and I paint and draw outside of school. Last year I took lessons after school, and last summer I participated in an intensive 6-week drawing+ painting classs at a local museum made up of mostly high school juniors and seniors.
I go to one of the best public middle schools in the state, and I am applying to deerfield, groton, concord academy, hotchkiss, and possibly one more, not sure of which yet, amybe Peddie for swimming.</p>
<p>Do I have a hook?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Your hook is swimming if your times are really good. Goooooo to Peddie. :)</p>
<p>Thanks, but I’m really only in maybe the top 50-40% of my team. Someone else told me it could be a hook that I do art, music, and a sport. What do youthink about that?</p>
<p>you have no “hook”… at all.
But you don’t have such bad stats.</p>
<p>what’s your time for your best event?</p>
<p>the schools that have swim teams/water polo will be interested in you.</p>
<p>no they won’t because all the top swimmers apply to those schools. so no, the “swim” schools won’t be interested too much. You have to apply to a school that SUCKS in swimming for them to be truly interested and “hooked” to you. Am I making sense here maddog?</p>
<p>not true and I know this for a fact. Swimmers are less in numbers than soccer and lax players, for example. So snappy, do you know any swimmers in BS? I`m in a family full of swimmers and I know some who were not top swimmers but were courted by the swim and water polo coaches. Butterfly is a swimmer for many yrs. so she/he knows that a few seconds makes the difference between a great swimmer and an average swimmer.
The bottom line is the dedication of swimming. Butterfly has that.</p>
<p>Well snappy, I was in a rush to class when I made that post. I now see you are a swimmer as well. So now I<code>m confused as to why you are discouraging Butterfly. She</code>s in the running w/ a 99 ssat and she<code>ll be able to swim anywhere.
BTW, the H school you</code>re looking at is one of the schools not too picky about swimmer times. 
the swim coach is very cool.</p>
<p>Your “hook” is that you are a great all-around student and athlete with a wide range of interests and accomplishments.</p>
<p>@ maddog15 I actually did talk to the swim coach there and i thought he was awesome and the pool is AMAZING :)</p>
<p>Thanks for the input everyone :)</p>