<p>but I don't have one as of now=[ hahah..</p>
<p>anyone have any ideas of what I can do.. I've been thinking forever on this</p>
<p>one word
essay.</p>
<p>you really don't need a hook, imo. just be yourself, and it should be enough, and if it's not, it's their loss.</p>
<p>A hook exists because you are a very unique individual. What you are asking us is how to be unique. Think about that for a minute.</p>
<p>A hook is something major that makes you stand out from other applicants. Unless you win a Nobel Prize, find a cure for cancer, or invent a car that runs on vegetable oil sometime within the next week, you probably don't have a hook. A hook isn't something you "come up with" a week before application deadlines; it's something special about you that's already there. Just focus on letting your voice shine through in your essays and let your accomplishments speak for themselves.</p>
<p>"A hook exists because you are a very unique individual. What you are asking us is how to be unique. Think about that for a minute."</p>
<p>That's not what a hook is, sorry.</p>
<p>"A hook isn't something you "come up with" a week before application deadlines"</p>
<p>uhh I'm not a senior btw that'd be ridiculous.....</p>
<p>^ My apologies, I misunderstood you. :(</p>
<p>I guess a good hook would be something like winning a major acadmic/sports competition, having a patent...the possibilities are endless. It's good you have a long time to work on it, because with tens of thousands of applicants, it usually has to be something major to really stand out.</p>
<p>I have to disagree with randombetch, though. A hook IS something that makes an individual unique; it's something unusual that "hooks" the admissions' officers attention, and, as I said above, makes the applicant stand out. Some hooks, a person is born with, like being a certain ethnicity the college is looking for, but others can be worked for, like becoming a recruited athlete, etc.</p>
<p>probably easiest minor hook to achieve is do some outside of school independent research, get your research paper published, enter mass competitions, then have a recommendation by your research supervisor.</p>