<p>I'm of chinese ethnicity ,but I'm a US citizen, so I've studied and lived in both countries.
I've also learnt french for 3years(I'm in 9th grade now), and has always been at the top of my class. And I've recently taught myself a little Korean.
Should I write these in my application form?</p>
<p>yes u should. but it’s not exactly an influential hook like mine.</p>
<p>what’s yours?</p>
<p>The US citizenship is very important as most schools have more Chinese (national) applicants than they can (or, rather, want to) accept. Play up the fact that you speak multiple languages and be sure to talk about your cross cultural experiences. Schools really want students who are going to cross social boundaries - being a possible bridge between American students and international students is a big plus. Your experience in multiple cultures should make you well suited to that.</p>
<p>two country cross-culturalism won’t be too influential as almost all the other chinese students in america (who were born in china like you) will be “cross-cultural”. I think most “American” people are at least bi-cultural. three is ideal. think of it as the difference between 2D and 3D.</p>
<p>Honestly you won’t stand out a lot in the applicant pool so you will have to find something else that makes you REALLY REALLY unique.</p>
<p>Best regards</p>
<p>I admit that my hook isn’t a great one. But I disagree with you, being an American born Chinese is quite different from having studied in a local Chinese school and a US public
school, not many student have this kind of experience.
ps. I wasn’t born in China.I was born in LA and was brought back to China when I was two weeks old. 0-3 years old I lived in China. 6-10 , the US, 10-14(now) China.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice. I don’t really know how it up in my application, but I’ll definitely try to emphasize it in my interview, you know, being able to identify with kids from different cultures, flexibility with different traditions, and I guess I have a quite unique and broader angle of thinking, blah blah.</p>
<p>how to show it in my application, sorry…</p>
<p>okay. but trust me, those top schools aren’t going to be as impressed as you are with your “hook”</p>
<p>Okay, just to clear things up. Neither of you have “hooks” per se. Some examples of hooks are: being a recruited athlete, being of URM status, being a legacy, a first generation college, or having insanely rich benfactor parents. Snape, why are you so cocky?</p>
<p>In fact, being asian can be seen as an anti-hook, as most prestigious colleges/universities discriminate against asians. Everheard of affirmative action?</p>
<p>*Ever heard…also, having connections is also a hook. Your dad golfs with [and hopefully loses to] the headmaster? Hook!</p>
<p>Snape, please stop being so pretentious and overly supercilious. You think you’re special because your URM status, but universities are not willing to admit hare-brained gorillas, even if they are URMs.</p>
<p>Just so we’re clear, I’m not impressed with with"hook"(let’s just use this phrase for now), if I were, I wouldn’t have posted a chance me thread.
Well thank you for your advice anyway.
But I’m just wondering, are you actually like this at school or are you just ostentatious on the web. I can hardly imagine any teacher writing an impressive recommendation letter for sb so cocky.
I appreciate that you try to keep it honest and true, I truly do. But I suggest you be more self-effacing.
ps. You still haven’t told me what your hook is</p>
<p>@ julianly</p>
<p>I’m Canadian and I have a Chinese background as well.</p>
<p>I have experienced both the Canadian education system and Chinese communist school system. I try to express that through my essays as much as possible.</p>
<p>When I was in China, I was elected the school/district San Hao student anually. You might know about it? Also I was chosen(anti-democracy much…) to be the Daduiwei. Anything similar to this would be highly beneficial in your application.</p>
<p>we’ll all see. I’m not going to waste any more time on you two because you asked for an opinion and then you label someone “pretentious”/ “supercilious” just because you’re not reading what’s pleasing to you. Good luck anyway.
Tell me if you get in. I’ll apologize if my cocky hypotheses are wrong.</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>SnapePotter</p>
<p>Seriously (not trying to sound demeaning or anything) nationality isn’t going to be a hook unless you’re from a country that not a lot of applicants come from (like idk Burma or Mongolia). Sure, it sounds superficial that schools would be impressed that you’re from Tibet or something but being a bi-cultural student is not going to be a hook. Especially Asian-American. BS’s have tons of those.</p>