<p>I don't exactly want to call it a hook, but I do want to know of it would make me stand out in the eyes of ivy-level adcoms.
I go to a tiny Korean church in small town, Missouri. We have less than 20 people. There is, however, one American lady that comes to our church because she's married to one of our Korean people. In addition, we have some Americans that come every now and then. I have been translating for them for over a year now. This is actually pretty serious. I listen to the preachings and translate over a radio-microphone thing and the American people hear through headphones, so it's not like I'm just making a big deal out of me just elaborating over my shoulders. Will the Ivy-level adcoms laugh at this or will they be intrigued?</p>
<p>If you present this in a nice way, they will most likely be intrigued. I think how you show them matters.</p>
<p>thanks. Any ideas on how I can present it, if I don't really want to write an essay on it?</p>
<p>Hook? Definitely not.
Shows Character? Yes</p>
<p>The fact that you thought it would be an ivy-worthy hook concerns me though.</p>
<p>Like, I said, I do not think of this as a hook. I just wanted to know if this would contribute to making me stand out and desirable. I am a firm believer that there is no such things as a "hook" in dealing with Ivy's. I believe that winning Nobel prize in your junior year (which probably isn't possible anyway) might help, but nothing guarantees admission to Harvard/Yale/etc. I just wanted confirmation that it wasn't something that the adcoms would just brush aside.</p>
<p>I don't know how you can present it if you don't want to write your essay on it. Maybe you can have a person you worked with write you a letter of rec. You can also talk about in in the additional information section in common app and all the apps. Just some ideas. I actually think it'd be an interesting essay topic and it shows diversity. Again, that's just my opinion.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to do it on the short answer on CommpnApp. Thanks.</p>
<p>I think this is an EC--you "perform simultaneous translation from Korean to English for church services." I think that's pretty cool.</p>