Is being an immigrant a hook?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Say you applied for college and came to the US only 3.75 years ago...would this count as a major hook (given good scores etc..) ?</p>

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<p>It depends.</p>

<h1>1: What country?</h1>

<h1>2: Are you a person of color?</h1>

<h1>3: How visible is your foreignness? Are you already assimilated, or do you start every sentence with "Please to..."</h1>

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<p>Well, pick your countries: India, China etc..
wat r ur opinions?</p>

<p>Indian Immigrants
and
Chinese Immigrants</p>

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<p>lol HeavenWood..</p>

<p>insecure: hmmm.. If you came here 3~4 years ago and you scored really good on your verbal section or something like that... then it will certainly help you// but it's just that there are WAY too many immigrants out there who are just like you. I say it could certainly help out a bit, but it can't be a "hook."</p>

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<p>By the way- I'm not talkin abt myself lol</p>

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<p>I think any major life experience is a potential hook or a topic for an essay, but colleges aren't going to treat it as a real hook (e.g. being 1st place in the IPhO). And if they do ... half of Asia will move to the US.</p>

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<p>Nope, unless you did something completely fantastic. There are too many of those kids just here on the west coast, just here in my high school and they end up going to mediocre state schools because they think they can rely on the "hook".</p>

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<p>I don't think it'll be a hook especially if you're asian, and I guess it might be one if you were like one of the Rwandan genocide survivors or had some other traumatic experience that affected you or something like that...</p>

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<p>depending on where you live, the hook may or may not work (but it will not work usually). for ex, if you live in the Bay Area (CA), where half of the local pop. is asian and immigrants, it doesn't help to go around with that ideology, even if you go to a super rich or exclusive private school where the average SAT scores are near perfect and every college in the US knows who you are...</p>

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<p>also depends which schools you apply to. some actively seek out diversity, others dont need to actively seek it out as they get so many potential applicants.</p>