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<p>A hook is being a recruited athlete, URM or legacy.</p>
<p>Getting a book published (real publisher, no vanity/self published) is a phenomenal EC that can push you into a college. It’s been done.</p>
<p>There was a story in the news a few years ago about a girl who hired a $50,000 college counselor to help get her into Harvard. The counselor got her to write a book and found a big publisher to publish it. It worked, the book sold well and she got a multi million dollar contract for more. She got into Harvard. Soon afterwards she was sued for plagiarism. Harvard kicked her out.</p>
<p>A few years ago there were kids at ivies that had best selling books in Asia.</p>
<p>If you already have a book out and haven’t even graduated from high school, the questions you should be asking yourself are, “Was this necessary?” and “Am I a narcissistic fraud?”</p>
<p>Not that narcissistic frauds don’t get into great schools at an alarming rate, mind.</p>
<p>I was just reading about that girl who plagiarized. What a scumbag.</p>
<p>WHAT IS THIS OBSESSION WITH “HOOKS”</p>
<p>seriously, don’t worry. get into school with your own merits. do what you want to do. you shouldn’t spend your time looking for hooks.</p>
<p>Yeah, there is no obsession. It was just a question and I am not spending my time looking for hooks, and plan to get into school on my own merit.</p>
<p>It is something you should definitely include in your college apps. Although CC has a set definition for hooks…I personally view Hooks as something that really set you apart from others…and isn’t the cliche: boy scout, Beta club president type things that anyone from anyone in america could be…but more of something that when a College Admin reads and is like ‘woah…thats different’. For me my personal hook is that I played Taps in the veteran’s assembly for 2 years. Maybe I have a skewed personal definition. Nontheless, that is awesome you have published a book. Let them know!</p>
<p>When you say “published” do you mean “self-published”?? </p>
<p>If so, then anyone with a few extra thousand dollars can be self-published. Basically it’s not impressive</p>