examples of a "hook"

Applying to College
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<p>could you guys give some examples of things you have used/are planning to use as a hook on your college app?</p>

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<p>This question has been asked frequently. Please use the Search function in the upper right of this forum and you will get many helpful hits.</p>

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<p>A physical hook for a hand. That’s what I wrote all of my essays about anyway, worked out well enough for me.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://budobeats.com/images/uploads/hook_ver1.jpg[/url]”>http://budobeats.com/images/uploads/hook_ver1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
I think this is one ^</p>

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<p>“things you have used/are planning to use as a hook on your college app”</p>

<p>Hooks aren’t tools in the kitchen drawer. Either you are one already or not.</p>

<p>recruited athlete, under-represented minority, legacy, development admit</p>

<p>By def’n, these are very rare and thus are “hooks”, i.e. status that some schools are looking for</p>

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<p>Welcome to CC!</p>

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<p>They are actually not so rare, your typical private college will have about 40% hooked students. But I will agree you either fall into a hooked category or you don’t.</p>

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<p>Essentially, something that is unique to 1% or less (number may not reflect accuracy) of the student body of the college you are applying to. Plus geographic and URM status (coming from geographic areas with a low percentage of students), or being more than 1/16 (in order of preference) native american, black, or hispanic, the more you show/more “relation” to your heritage, the better.</p>

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<p>Is it a hook if your school has never sent any students to the schools you are applying to? The last Ivy League acceptance to my school was around 2001, when this kid went to U Penn (he didn’t last there). The last one before that was Harvard in 1998. My top choice is Brown, which I am positive no one in the past 20-30 years has been. </p>

<p>Our city is very lower-middle-class city and my high school is pretty bad to say the last. However, just a stones throw away the next city over is a really nice school that sends kids to top schools regularly. Will I be compared to those kids when it comes to schools that compare applicants regionally?</p>

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<p>Yes, you will be in a competitive pool with those kids and while not a hook, you will have a leg up if you’ve taken advantage of all of your opportunities and done well. They will expect you to be at the very top of your class at a less competitive school.</p>

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<p>what’s a “development admit”? (from post #5)</p>

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<p>Does top 10% count as “very top”?</p>

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<p>@flyingllama: It’s a nice way of saying someone in their family donated a building/ huge sum of money, so their kid would be accepted to college X.</p>

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<p>i am applying to 2 ivys among other schools, one is recruiting me to play volleyball, but I don’t know if I am good enough to make one of their 5 slots-i will apply anyway. still a hook?
my other unique(so i have been told)trait is i am a professional model, 6’ tall, and signed with a top agency, and have done lots of national ad campaigns. i don’t see how this talent adds to a campus other than than a different life experience. is this a hook or just an unusual EC? I do spend lots of hours on sets, but it sure isn’t stem cell research. :-)</p>

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<p>Emily–definitely a hook. I noticed that sometimes colleges like to say things like , “In our class, we have someone who invented an advanced paper clip, an underwater bongo player, an Olympic synchronized swimmer, and a professional model!” That would be a fabulous hook.</p>

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<p>Professional model may only help if you have a guy adcom. For instance, my only female interviewer was for Cornell, and that was the only school I got into.</p>

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<p>really? i think of it as so brainless, but thanks! do you think i should do an “arts supplement” to my application with the spreads I have done?</p>

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It’s only a hook if you’re on the list the coach submits to the admissions office. </p>

<p>As to your other question, modelling is an EC, not a hook.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>thank you!</p>

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<p>So would Kate Moss’s history be an EC or hook?</p>