<p>nope, I'm serious!!</p>
<p>I am NOT gonna let this thread rot at the bottom of the pile...</p>
<p>Is it good to mention youre parents where communists, but they were betrayed by the communist and so fleed the country??In you essay</p>
<p>thats pretty neat. but tie ur OWN story into it, and what u have learned as the main bit of the essay...
btw. its "fled" not "fleed"</p>
<p>Hello, you are the MAN (or if you're a girl, you are the MAN even more)
OK, here are my hooks:
- Best speaker, best team at national debate tournament;
- won an international debate tournament, second place(teams) at the IDEA Youth Forum (with participants from 33 countries)
- debate trainer and coach (I coached the winning team at a tournament)
- judged at three international debate tournaments
- organized the first intl. debate tournament in Romania
- overseen the foundation of the local debate society
- fundraised $8000
- been to a lot of countries in Europe
- can speak 5 languages, of which 3 fluently (Romanian, English, German)
- TV show-host and director at a local station</p>
<p>congrulation, you will be accepted everywhere, if also youre scores are decent</p>
<p>Yeah right, I got deferred at Bates :(. IUB did accept me, though.</p>
<p>hello??? wht ya thinkin buddy?? listen you got to send this info to the adcoms asap. BUT, you also want to be smart about how u send it. if I were the adcom (we wish, dont we??) i would surely go wow with ur ecs, but would also question ur judgement of not includin these stuff at the first go around, so be smart about it...</p>
<p>I did mention it for the colleges who asked "what did you do last summer?? etc, but just a sentence</p>
<p>hello, i'm absolutely speechless.. how could you man?</p>
<p>adides is right, you can't just send a letter and go like: Oh btw, did you know that... ? hmm also, it's not cool to say, oh i forgot to tell you that..
difficult situation, only advice i can give you atm, follow up with this magnificent hook really really fast!</p>
<p>I'll write an essay on my experience, and then probably attach a copy of my airline ticket ;)</p>
<p>thts a gr8 idea - u can easily put a scanned copy on the top of the page and give it some corky heading like 'a momento', 'like a crow flies', 'from dubai with love', 'the world is not enough', 'you only live twice' and then go into your experience.</p>
<p>wait wait wait... wasn't hello being sarcastic?</p>
<p>Exactly,Hello ,is all this rot abt u flying to Afghanistan really true??/
Coz then,if u didnt mention it,u dont deserve admission anywhere</p>
<p>this is the sarcasm -
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I'll write an essay on my experience, and then probably attach a copy of my airline ticket
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<p>Yes it is true. Infact I've been there twice, once for some months and th 2nd time for abt a week.</p>
<p>shall we post our hooks in order of importance and restrict them to two or three apart from stats
1 act 30/800/800/760 editor schoolmagazine,most promising debater national debate shimla ,</p>
<p>ummm. my hooks would be:webdesigning for 8 years, various company websites, making an online and offline catalog- getting my work through that published, working on the school website.
and the second would be my avid volunteer work at the hospital, peer mentoring, teaching ESL students, but most importantly my 300 hrs of commitment with children of disabilities at the Children Disability centre =)</p>
<p>Hooks -
Basketball, represented my country in the U-19 SAF Basketball Championships, should be worth something to the adcoms.
Community Service - quite a few awards in this category, but too lazy to list them so ....
Also worked for Mad magazine-esque type magazine in the country. Wrote the first English comic strip to be published in the magazine in its nine-year history. Btw, this is also the focus of my Personal Statement.</p>