<p>Do admissions officers really put you with a different pool of applicants if you are the Hoby Rep (the only one selected) from your high school....making your chances better for admission???</p>
<p>HOBY – as in Hugh O’ Brian Youth Leadership? No, I do not think they put you into a different group of applicants. I was chosen for my school my sophomore year and then got chosen to represent my seminar for the WLC.</p>
<p>I’m sure most Adcoms know about HOBY, as it is pretty old, and a lot of my alumni friends have already gotten accepted to very prestigious schools (Stanford, Yale SCEA, UPenn, likely letters at Harvard, UVA, and among others), and quite a few of them wrote about their HOBY experience. I doubt that being in HOBY itself improved their chances a lot, it was probably more likely that a lot students chosen for HOBY are already elite school caliber students.</p>
<p>Either way, being in HOBY and not doing anything else to make you stand out probably won’t make you desirable for admissions; however, if you used your HOBY experience to better yourself and your community, and then connecting the two in an essay – that will make your file look “outstanding” ;).</p>
<p>Congratulations on getting chosen for HOBY, what year are you? I haven’t meet another HOBY ambassador at CC, but I am sure there a good number of us lurking around…</p>
<p>Probably some colleges that are second tier and below do give one a tip for HOBY. If you Google, you can find some colleges that even give some merit aid for HOBY alum. I imagine that such colleges consider it a tip factor.</p>