Hooks (URM, first-gen, etc.)

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This:

@csdad2

How do you presume to know just how colleges use such information (race/ethnicity/income)? Why do you think your situation, the challenges you faced, won’t be recognized and evaluated fairly?

You are a high school Jr. and I would suggest that your time on CC would be better spent trying to figure out how to assemble the best application you possibly can rather than worrying about perceived injustices that you haven’t even experienced.

And this:

@Dolemite

Basically if you come across in your essays the same way you are coming across in this thread you’ll greatly reduce your chances at acceptance at many schools. Perhaps you should seek out ways to better empathize with people that have faced these challenges by reading or getting involved in different ways

Empathy: spend a few moments asking yourself if you would gladly transform and live the remainder of your life as an African-American so that you can have a “hook” next year. Really think about it. Yeh, I didn’t think so.